Numbers 5:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

After the priest has the woman stand before the Lord, he is to let down her hair  and place in her hands the grain offering for remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse.

Cross References

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honoured by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Corinthians 11:6

For if a woman doesn’t cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her head be covered.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise  how evil and bitter  it is for you to abandon the  Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.

Isaiah 38:17

Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such intense bitterness; but your love has delivered me from the Pit of destruction, for you have thrown all my sins behind your back.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death  the woman who is a trap:  her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Proverbs 5:4

in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a double-edged sword.

1 Samuel 15:32

Samuel said, ‘Bring me King Agag of Amalek.’ Agag came to him trembling,  for he thought, ‘Certainly the bitterness of death has come.’  ,

Deuteronomy 29:18

Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.

Numbers 5:22

May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach, causing your belly to swell and your womb to shrivel.” ‘And the woman will reply, “Amen, Amen.”

Numbers 5:17

Then the priest is to take holy water in a clay bowl, take some of the dust from the tabernacle floor, and put it in the water.

Numbers 5:15

then the man is to bring his wife to the priest. He is also to bring an offering for her of two litres  of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it because it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering for remembrance to draw attention to guilt.

Leviticus 13:45

‘The person who has a case of serious skin disease is to have his clothes torn  and his hair hanging loose, and he must cover his mouth  and cry out, “Unclean, unclean! ”

1 Corinthians 11:15

but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory?  For her hair is given to her  as a covering.

Numbers 5:19

The priest will require the woman to take an oath and will say to her, “If no man has slept with you, if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, be unaffected by this bitter water that brings a curse.