Numbers 5:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Ps 109:18 : 18 He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
  • Deut 27:15-26 : 15 Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it. 16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it. 17 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it. 18 Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people say, So be it. 19 Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it. 20 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it. 21 Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it. 22 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. And let all the people say, So be it. 23 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it. 24 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it. 25 Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it. 26 Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Job 31:21-22 : 21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges; 22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.
  • Job 31:39-40 : 39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners; 40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
  • Ps 7:4-5 : 4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause; 5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)
  • Ps 41:13 : 13 May the Lord God of Israel be praised, through eternal days and for ever. So be it. So be it.
  • Ps 72:19 : 19 Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.
  • Ps 89:52 : 52 Let the Lord be praised for ever. So be it, So be it.
  • Prov 1:31 : 31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
  • Ezek 3:3 : 3 And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.
  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
  • John 3:11 : 11 Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.
  • John 5:24-25 : 24 Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life. 25 Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.
  • John 6:53 : 53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.
  • Num 5:27 : 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.

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  • Num 5:16-21
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    92%

    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;

    18 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;

    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;

  • Num 5:23-28
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 21:14-15
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    71%

    14 Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

    15 And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.

  • Deut 28:15-21
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    15 But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

    16 You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.

    17 A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

    18 A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

    19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

    20 The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.

    21 The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going.

  • Deut 27:15-24
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    15 Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

    16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

    17 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.

    18 Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people say, So be it.

    19 Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

    20 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.

    21 Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it.

    22 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

    23 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it.

    24 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Deut 27:26
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    26 Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Deut 28:35
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    35 The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.

  • Ps 109:18
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    18 He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

  • Zech 5:3
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    3 Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.

  • Deut 29:19
    68%

    19 If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking whatever chance may give him:

  • 2 Chr 34:24
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    24 These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even all the curses in the book which they have been reading before the king of Judah;

  • Jer 11:3
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    3 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,

  • Lev 15:22
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    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
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    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;

  • Deut 29:27
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    27 And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:

  • Lam 3:65
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    65 You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.

  • Deut 11:29
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    29 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land of your heritage, you are to put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

  • Lev 26:16
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    16 This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

  • Lev 24:15
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    15 And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.

  • Jer 44:22
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    22 And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

  • Num 5:31
    66%

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

  • Exod 23:25
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    25 And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.

  • Deut 11:26
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    26 Today I put before you a blessing and a curse:

  • Deut 28:45
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    45 And all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction is complete; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, or keep his laws and his orders which he gave you: