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Numbers 5:22 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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.” "

Numbers 5:22

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20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—”

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

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 wipe them 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.

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Numbers 5:1

"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"

Numbers 5:2

"“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse."

Numbers 5:3

"You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”"

Numbers 5:4

"The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as the LORD spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did."

Numbers 5:5

"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"

Numbers 5:6

"“Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against the LORD, and that soul is guilty,"

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