Numbers 5:18

Modern English Version

And the priest will set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the memorial offering in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy, and the priest will have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse.

Cross References

Proverbs 5:4

but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death a woman whose heart is like snares and nets, whose hands are like prison cells. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Isaiah 38:17

Behold, it was for my own peace that I had great bitterness; but You have kept my soul from the pit of corruption, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter for you to have forsaken the Lord your God, and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord God of Hosts.

Leviticus 13:45

The man who has the leprous disease shall have torn clothes and disheveled hair; and he shall cover his mustache and shall cry, “Unclean, unclean.”

Numbers 5:15

then the man shall bring his wife to the priest and he shall bring her offering for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall pour no oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

Numbers 5:17

And the priest will take holy water in an earthen vessel, and the priest will take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

Numbers 5:19

And the priest will charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to impurity with another instead of your husband, be free from this bitter water that causes the curse.

Numbers 5:22

And this water that causes the curse will go into your bowels, to make your belly swell and your thigh rot.” And the woman will say, “Amen, amen.”

1 Corinthians 11:15

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering.

1 Corinthians 11:6

For if the woman is not covered, let her also cut off her hair. But if it is a shame for a woman to have her hair cut off or shaved, let her be covered.

Deuteronomy 29:18

lest there be among you a man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of these nations, and lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit;

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honored among everyone, and the bed undefiled. But God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Samuel 15:32

Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him reluctantly. But Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”