Numbers 5:22-24
New Living Translation
22 Now may this water that brings the curse enter your body and cause your abdomen to swell and your womb to shrivel.[a]’ And the woman will be required to say, ‘Yes, let it be so.’ 23 And the priest will write these curses on a piece of leather and wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings on the curse. When the water enters her body, it will cause bitter suffering if she is guilty.
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- 5:22 Hebrew and your thigh to waste away.
Numbers 5:22-24
King James Version
22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
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Numbers 5:22-24
New King James Version
22 and may this water that causes the curse (A)go into your stomach, and make your belly swell and your thigh rot.”
‘(B)Then the woman shall say, “Amen, so be it.”
23 ‘Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall scrape them off into the bitter water. 24 And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her to become bitter.
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Numbers 5:22-24
English Standard Version
22 May this water that brings the curse (A)pass into your bowels and make your womb swell and your thigh fall away.’ And the woman shall say, (B)‘Amen, Amen.’
23 “Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness. 24 And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.
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