Numbers 5:27

Modern English Version

When he has made her to drink the water, then it will be that, if she is defiled and has acted treacherously against her husband, the water that causes the curse will enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will rot, and the woman will be a curse among her people.

Cross References

Psalm 109:18

He clothed himself with cursing as his garment; so let it enter his body like water, and like oil into his bones.

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 65:15

You shall leave your name for a curse to My chosen ones; for the Lord God shall slay you, but My servants shall be called by another name;

Jeremiah 24:9

And I will make them a horror and an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places wherever I shall drive them.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and an astonishment, a hissing and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

Jeremiah 29:22

And because of them a curse shall be taken up by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”

Jeremiah 42:18

For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: As My anger and My fury have been poured out upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will My fury be poured out upon you when you go to Egypt. And you will be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. And you shall see this place no more.

Jeremiah 44:12

I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they all will be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt. They will even be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They will die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they will be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

Zechariah 8:13

And as you have been like a curse among the nations, O house of Israel and house of Judah, I will deliver you, and you will be a blessing. Fear not, and strengthen your hands!

Numbers 5:20

But if you have gone astray to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and a man besides your husband has lain with you”—

Numbers 5:28

If the woman is not defiled, but is clean, then she will be free and will conceive offspring.

Romans 6:21

What fruit did you have then from the things of which you are now ashamed? The result of those things is death.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To the one we are the fragrance of death, which brings death, and to the other the fragrance of life, which brings life. Who is sufficient for these things?

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become a horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule among all nations where the Lord shall lead you.

2 Peter 2:10

especially those who walk after the flesh in pursuit of unclean desires, and despise authority. They are presumptuous and arrogant, and are not afraid to slander the angelic beings.