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Numbers 5:21-23
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Numbers 5:21-23
Holman Christian Standard Bible
21 at this point the priest must make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her—‘May the Lord make you into an object of your people’s cursing and swearing when He makes your thigh[a] shrivel and your belly swell.[b] 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach, causing your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’
“And the woman must reply, ‘Amen, Amen.’
23 “Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
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- Numbers 5:21 Possibly a euphemism for the reproductive organs
- Numbers 5:21 Or flood
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