Numbers 5:21

World English Bible (2000)

then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, "Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

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  • Josh 6:26 : 26 Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed is the man before Yahweh, who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its gates."
  • 1 Sam 14:24 : 24 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.
  • Neh 10:29 : 29 they joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
  • Jer 29:22 : 22 and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
  • Matt 26:74 : 74 Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don't know the man!" Immediately the rooster crowed.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
  • Isa 65:15 : 15 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:
  • 2 Chr 21:15 : 15 and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.'"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 5:22-31
    10 verses
    92%

    22 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away." The woman shall say, "Amen, Amen."

    23 "'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

    24 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

    25 The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.

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

    27 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.

    28 If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

    29 "'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;

    30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.

    31 The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.'"

  • Num 5:11-20
    10 verses
    82%

    11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    12 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

    13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;

    14 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:

    15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.

    16 The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh;

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

    18 The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

    19 The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

    20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"

  • Deut 28:15-21
    7 verses
    73%

    15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.

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

    17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.

    18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.

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

    20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

    21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.

  • Deut 27:19-23
    5 verses
    72%

    19 'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    20 'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    21 'Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    22 'Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    23 'Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • 2 Chr 21:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;

    15 and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.'"

  • Deut 28:35
    70%

    35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

  • Zech 5:3
    70%

    3 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

  • Deut 27:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15 'Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' All the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

    16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Jer 11:3
    69%

    3 and say to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed is the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant,

  • Deut 28:56
    69%

    56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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 7:14
    69%

    14 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

  • Num 30:13
    69%

    13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

  • Lev 24:15
    69%

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

  • Deut 11:28-29
    2 verses
    68%

    28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

    29 It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.

  • Num 30:6
    68%

    6 "If she is [married] to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,

  • Deut 22:14
    68%

    14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"

  • Deut 29:21
    68%

    21 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

  • Num 30:9
    68%

    9 "But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, [even] everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

  • Job 31:10
    68%

    10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.