Numbers 5:27

New Living Translation

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.

Cross References

Psalm 109:18

Cursing is as natural to him as his clothing, or the water he drinks, or the rich food he eats.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I discovered that a seductive woman is a trap more bitter than death. Her passion is a snare, and her soft hands are chains. Those who are pleasing to God will escape her, but sinners will be caught in her snare.

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 24:9

I will make them an object of horror and a symbol of evil to every nation on earth. They will be disgraced and mocked, taunted and cursed, wherever I scatter them.

Jeremiah 29:18

Yes, I will pursue them with war, famine, and disease, and I will scatter them around the world. In every nation where I send them, I will make them an object of damnation, horror, contempt, and mockery.

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!’

Jeremiah 42:18

“This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury have been poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so they will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will be an object of damnation, horror, cursing, and mockery. And you will never see your homeland again.’

Jeremiah 44:12

I will take this remnant of Judah—those who were determined to come here and live in Egypt—and I will consume them. They will fall here in Egypt, killed by war and famine. All will die, from the least to the greatest. They will be an object of damnation, horror, cursing, and mockery.

Zechariah 8:13

Among the other nations, Judah and Israel became symbols of a cursed nation. But no longer! Now I will rescue you and make you both a symbol and a source of blessing. So don’t be afraid. Be strong, and get on with rebuilding the Temple!

Numbers 5:20

But if you have gone astray by being unfaithful to your husband, and have defiled yourself by having sex with another man—’

Numbers 5:28

But if she has not defiled herself and is pure, then she will be unharmed and will still be able to have children.

Romans 6:21

And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume. And who is adequate for such a task as this?

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become an object of horror, ridicule, and mockery among all the nations to which the Lord sends you.

2 Peter 2:10

He is especially hard on those who follow their own twisted sexual desire, and who despise authority. These people are proud and arrogant, daring even to scoff at supernatural beings without so much as trembling.