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Numbers 5:22-24
Living Bible
Numbers 5:22-24
Living Bible
21-22 then Jehovah shall make you a curse among your people, for he will make your thigh rot away and your body swell.’ And the woman shall be required to say, ‘Yes, let it be so.’ 23 Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the bitter water. 24 (When he requires the woman to drink the water, it becomes bitter within her if she is guilty.[a])
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- Numbers 5:24 if she is guilty, implied.
Numbers 5:22-24
New International Version
Numbers 5:22-24
New International Version
22 May this water(A) that brings a curse(B) enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”
“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.(C)”
23 “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll(D) and then wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.
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