Numbers 5:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse; and the water that brings a curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

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  • Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on this side; and everyone who swears shall be cut off according to it on that side. 4 I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

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  • Num 5:13-23
    11 verses
    91%

    13And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act;

    14And if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself:

    15Then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

    16And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD:

    17And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water:

    18And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and uncover the woman’s head, and put the grain offering of remembrance in her hands, which is the jealousy offering; and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse:

    19And the priest shall make her swear an oath, and say to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of your husband, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse:

    20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:

    21Then the priest shall make the woman swear with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh waste away and your belly swell;

    22And this water that brings a curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly swell and your thigh waste away. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

    23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

  • Num 5:25-31
    7 verses
    90%

    25Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it on the altar:

    26And the priest shall take a handful of the offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

    27And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she is defiled and has broken faith with her husband, that the water that brings a curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall waste away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

    28And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.

    29This is the law of jealousy, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband and defiles herself;

    30Or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he is jealous of his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD and the priest shall carry out all this law upon her.

    31Then the man shall be free from iniquity, and the woman shall bear her iniquity.

  • Deut 29:19-21
    3 verses
    71%

    19And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

    20The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

    21And the LORD shall separate him for disaster out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

  • Prov 5:4
    70%

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

  • Deut 28:15-20
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    70%

    15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen unto the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you:

    16Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

    17Cursed shall be your basket and your store.

    18Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep.

    19Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

    20The LORD shall send upon you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you set your hand unto for to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the wickedness of your doings, whereby you have forsaken Me.

  • Lam 3:15
    70%

    15He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

  • Deut 29:27
    70%

    27And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

  • 2 Chr 34:24
    69%

    24Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabitants of it, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

  • Exod 15:23
    68%

    23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

  • Deut 28:56
    68%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  • Deut 24:3
    68%

    3And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;

  • Deut 27:19
    68%

    19Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Lam 3:65
    68%

    65Give them sorrow of heart, Your curse upon them.

  • Deut 24:1
    67%

    1When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Zech 5:3
    67%

    3Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on this side; and everyone who swears shall be cut off according to it on that side.

  • Deut 22:14
    67%

    14And gives occasions of speech against her, and brings up an evil name upon her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a virgin.

  • Job 31:10
    67%

    10Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

  • Rom 3:14
    67%

    14'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

  • Lev 24:14-15
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    67%

    14Bring forth him who has cursed outside the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

    15And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

  • Jer 25:18
    67%

    18To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

  • Num 19:4
    67%

    4And Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger and sprinkle it directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:

  • Lev 15:22
    67%

    22And whoever touches anything that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Num 30:6
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    6And if she had a husband when she vowed, or uttered anything out of her lips with which she bound her soul,

  • Ps 109:18
    66%

    18As he clothed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

  • Jer 9:15
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    15Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.