You yourself will be very ill with a lingering disease of the bowels, until the disease causes your bowels to come out.” ’
Numbers 5:21 - New International Version (Anglicised) here the priest is to put the woman under this curse – ‘may the Lord cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the priest shall make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman, The Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people when the Lord makes your thigh fall away and your body swell. American Standard Version (1901) then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell; Common English Bible then the priest must make the woman utter the curse and say to the woman, “May the LORD make you a curse and a harmful pledge among your people, when the LORD induces a miscarriage and your womb discharges. Catholic Public Domain Version these curses shall be thrown upon you: May the Lord turn you into a curse and an example among all his people. May he cause your thigh to rot, and may your abdomen swell up and burst out. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version These curses shall light upon thee. The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people. May he make thy thigh to rot: and may thy belly swell and burst asunder. |
You yourself will be very ill with a lingering disease of the bowels, until the disease causes your bowels to come out.” ’
all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the Lord our Lord.
The name of the righteous is used in blessings, but the name of the wicked will rot.
You will leave your name for my chosen ones to use in their curses; the Sovereign Lord will put you to death, but to his servants he will give another name.
Because of them, all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: “May the Lord treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned in the fire.”
If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: when she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.
Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, ‘I don’t know the man!’ Immediately a cock crowed.
At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: ‘Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: ‘At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.’
Now the Israelites were in distress that day, because Saul had bound the people under an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be anyone who eats food before evening comes, before I have avenged myself on my enemies!’ So none of the troops tasted food.