Numbers 5:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he will make the woman come before the Lord with her hair loose, and will put the meal offering, the offering of a bitter spirit, in her hands; and the priest will take in his hand the bitter water causing the curse;

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 13:45 : 45 And the leper who has the disease on him is to go about with signs of grief, with his hair loose and his mouth covered, crying, Unclean, unclean.
  • Num 5:15 : 15 Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind.
  • Num 5:17 : 17 And the priest will take holy water in a pot and put in it dust from the floor of the House;
  • Num 5:22 : 22 And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.
  • Num 5:24-26 : 24 And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her. 25 And the priest will take from her hand the meal offering of doubt, waving it before the Lord, and will take it to the altar; 26 And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter water.
  • Deut 29:18 : 18 So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;
  • 1 Sam 15:32 : 32 Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.
  • Prov 5:4 : 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
  • 1 Cor 11:6 : 6 For if a woman is not veiled, let her hair be cut off; but if it is a shame to a woman to have her hair cut off, let her be veiled.
  • Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart. 13 And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
  • Rev 2:19-23 : 19 I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first. 20 But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods. 21 And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways. 22 See, I will put her into a bed, and those who make themselves unclean with her, into great trouble, if they go on with her works. 23 And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.
  • Rev 10:9-9 : 9 And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me: Put it in your mouth; and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey. 10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and did as he said; and it was sweet as honey in my mouth: and when I had taken it, my stomach was made bitter.
  • 1 Cor 11:15 : 15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given to her for a covering.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Num 5:19-31
    13 verses
    87%

    19 And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no man has been your lover and you have not been with another in place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water causing the curse;

    20 But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:

    21 Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach;

    22 And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.

    23 And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water;

    24 And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.

    25 And the priest will take from her hand the meal offering of doubt, waving it before the Lord, and will take it to the altar;

    26 And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter water.

    27 And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

    28 But if she is clean she will be free and will have offspring.

    29 This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;

    30 Or for a husband who, in a bitter spirit, has doubts in his heart about his wife; let him take her to the priest, who will put in force this law.

    31 Then the man will be free from all wrong, and the woman's sin will be on her.

  • Num 5:11-17
    7 verses
    86%

    11 And the Lord said to Moses,

    12 Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

    13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

    14 If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart, and he has doubts of his wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts of her without cause:

    15 Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind.

    16 And the priest will make her come near and put her before the Lord;

    17 And the priest will take holy water in a pot and put in it dust from the floor of the House;

  • Lev 15:30
    71%

    30 To be offered by the priest, one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering; and the priest will take away her sin before the Lord on account of her unclean condition.

  • Lev 15:15
    69%

    15 And they are to be offered by the priest, one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering, and the priest will take away his sin before the Lord on account of his flow.

  • Num 19:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3 Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him.

    4 Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the front of the Tent of meeting:

  • Lev 12:7
    68%

    7 And the priest is to make an offering of it before the Lord and take away her sin, and she will be made clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for a woman who gives birth to a male or a female.

  • Ezek 16:38
    68%

    38 And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.

  • Num 6:16-21
    6 verses
    67%

    16 And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his sin-offering and his burned offering;

    17 Giving the sheep of the peace-offerings, with the basket of unleavened bread; and at the same time, the priest will make his meal offering and his drink offering.

    18 Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire on which the peace-offerings are burning.

    19 And the priest will take the cooked leg of the sheep and one unleavened cake and one thin cake out of the basket, and put them on the hands of the separate one after his hair has been cut,

    20 Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.

    21 This is the law for him who takes an oath to keep himself separate, and for his offering to the Lord on that account, in addition to what he may be able to get; this is the law of his oath, which he will have to keep.

  • Deut 22:14-15
    2 verses
    67%

    14 And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

    15 Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin:

  • Lev 14:5
    66%

    5 And the priest will give orders for one of the birds to be put to death in a vessel made of earth, over flowing water.

  • Lev 15:22
    66%

    22 And anyone touching anything on which she has been seated will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

  • Deut 28:56
    66%

    56 The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

  • Jer 7:18
    66%

    18 The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

  • Num 19:17
    65%

    17 And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel:

  • Num 30:8-9
    2 verses
    65%

    8 If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force.

    9 But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

  • Lev 1:15
    65%

    15 And the priest is to take it to the altar, and after its head has been twisted off, it is to be burned on the altar, and its blood drained out on the side of the altar:

  • Num 30:6
    65%

    6 But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

  • Lev 22:14
    65%

    14 And if a man takes the holy food in error, he will have to give the holy thing back to the priest, with the addition of a fifth part.

  • Num 30:3
    65%

    3 When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.

  • Lev 20:18
    65%

    18 And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people.

  • Deut 22:20
    65%

    20 But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,

  • Lev 15:18
    65%

    18 And if a man has sex relations with a woman and his seed goes out from him, the two of them will have to be bathed in water and will be unclean till evening.

  • Job 31:10
    65%

    10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

  • Num 30:12
    65%

    12 And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every undertaking she gave will have force.