Numbers 5:27

Holman Christian Standard Bible

“When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, and her thigh will shrivel. She will become a curse among her people.

Cross References

Psalm 109:18

He wore cursing like his coat — let it enter his body like water and go into his bones like oil.

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.

Isaiah 65:15

You will leave your name behind as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord God will kill you; but He will give His servants another name.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them an object of horror and disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace, an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing, wherever I have banished them.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth — a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations where I have banished them.

Jeremiah 29:22

Based on what happens to them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will create a curse that says, ‘May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire! ’

Jeremiah 42:18

“For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and fury were poured out on Jerusalem’s residents, so will My fury pour out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing, scorn, execration, and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’

Jeremiah 44:12

And I will take away the remnant of Judah, those who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to live there for a while; they will meet their end. All of them in the land of Egypt will fall by the sword; they will meet their end by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by the sword and by famine. Then they will become an object of cursing, scorn, execration, and disgrace.

Zechariah 8:13

As you have been a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Don’t be afraid; let your hands be strong.”

Numbers 5:20

But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has slept with you’ —

Numbers 5:28

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she will be unaffected and will be able to conceive children.

Romans 6:21

So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.

2 Peter 2:10

especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold, arrogant people! They do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones;