Numbers 5:21

New Living Translation

“At this point the priest must put the woman under oath by saying, ‘May the people know that the Lord’s curse is upon you when he makes you infertile, causing your womb to shrivel and your abdomen to swell.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:15

You yourself will suffer with a severe intestinal disease that will get worse each day until your bowels come out.”

Nehemiah 10:29

joined their leaders and bound themselves with an oath. They swore a curse on themselves if they failed to obey the Law of God as issued by his servant Moses. They solemnly promised to carefully follow all the commands, regulations, and decrees of the Lord our Lord:

Proverbs 10:7

We have happy memories of the godly, but the name of a wicked person rots away.

Isaiah 65:15

Your name will be a curse word among my people, for the Sovereign Lord will destroy you and will call his true servants by another name.

Jeremiah 29:22

Their terrible fate will become proverbial, so that the Judean exiles will curse someone by saying, ‘May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned alive!’

Numbers 5:27

If she has defiled herself by being unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings on the curse will cause bitter suffering. Her abdomen will swell and her womb will shrink, and her name will become a curse among her people.

Matthew 26:74

Peter swore, “A curse on me if I’m lying—I don’t know the man!” And immediately the rooster crowed.

Joshua 6:26

At that time Joshua invoked this curse: “May the curse of the Lord fall on anyone who tries to rebuild the town of Jericho. At the cost of his firstborn son, he will lay its foundation. At the cost of his youngest son, he will set up its gates.”

1 Samuel 14:24

Now the men of Israel were pressed to exhaustion that day, because Saul had placed them under an oath, saying, “Let a curse fall on anyone who eats before evening—before I have full revenge on my enemies.” So no one ate anything all day,