Numbers 5:27

New American Bible - revised edition

Once he has had her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter into her to her bitter hurt, and her belly will swell and her uterus will fall, so that she will become a curse among her people.

Cross References

Psalm 109:18

May cursing clothe him like a robe; may it enter his belly like water, his bones like oil.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

More bitter than death I find the woman who is a hunter’s trap, whose heart is a snare, whose hands are prison bonds. The one who pleases God will be delivered from her, but the one who displeases will be entrapped by her.

Isaiah 65:15

You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen ones when the Lord God slays you, and calls his servants by another name.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all the places to which I will drive them.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse, a desolation, a hissing, and a reproach to all the nations among which I have banished them,

Jeremiah 29:22

And because of them this curse will be used by all the exiles of Judah in Babylon: “May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in fire,”

Jeremiah 42:18

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Just as my furious wrath was poured out upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my anger be poured out on you when you reach Egypt. You shall become a malediction and a horror, a curse and a reproach, and you shall never see this place again.

Jeremiah 44:12

I will take away the remnant of Judah who insisted on going to the land of Egypt to live there; in the land of Egypt they shall meet their end. They shall fall by the sword or be consumed by hunger. From the least to the greatest, they shall die by sword or hunger; they shall become a malediction, a horror, a curse, a reproach.

Zechariah 8:13

Just as you became a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you that you may be a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.

Numbers 5:20

But if you have gone astray while under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you”—

Numbers 5:28

If, however, the woman has not defiled herself, but is still pure, she will be immune and will still be fertile.

Romans 6:21

But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the latter an odor of death that leads to death, to the former an odor of life that leads to life. Who is qualified for this?

Deuteronomy 28:37

and you will be a horror, a byword, a taunt among all the peoples to which the Lord will drive you. Fruitless Labors.

2 Peter 2:10

and especially those who follow the flesh with its depraved desire and show contempt for lordship. False Teachers Denounced. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to revile glorious beings,