Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

and this water that brings a curse enters your abdomen, making it swell and your thigh waste away.' "Then the woman is to say "Amen.'

New American Standard Bible

and this water that brings a curse shall go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh waste away.” And the woman shall say, “Amen. Amen.”

King James Version

And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

Holman Bible

May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach, causing your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’

“And the woman must reply, ‘Amen, Amen.’

A Conservative Version

And this water that causes the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen.

American Standard Version

and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen.

Amplified

and this water that brings a curse shall go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh waste away.” And the woman shall say, “Amen. Amen (so let it be).”

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

and this water that bringeth the curse shall enter into thy bowels, to make the belly to swell, and the thigh to shrink. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

Julia Smith Translation

And the waters causing the curse shall come into thy bowels, and cause thy belly to come forth, and thy thigh to fall. And the woman said, Amen, amen.

King James 2000

And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

Lexham Expanded Bible

and these waters that bring a curse will go into your intestines to cause [your] womb to swell and to make [your] hip fall away." And the women will say, "Amen. Amen."

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and this bitter cursing water go into the bowels of thee, that thy womb burst and thy thigh rot. And the wife shall say: Amen, Amen.

NET Bible

and this water that causes the curse will go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot." Then the woman must say, "Amen, amen."

New Heart English Bible

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.'

The Emphasized Bible

so shall this water that causeth a curse enter into thy body, causing womb to swell and thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen.

Webster

And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to perish. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

World English Bible

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."

Youngs Literal Translation

and these waters which cause the curse have gone into thy bowels, to cause the belly to swell, and the thigh to fall; and the woman hath said, Amen, Amen.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארר 
'arar 
Usage: 63

shall go

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

מעה 
me`ah 
Usage: 32

בּטן 
Beten 
Usage: 72

to swell
צבה 
Tsabah 
Usage: 2

and thy thigh
ירך 
Yarek 
Usage: 34

to rot
נפל 
Naphal 
Usage: 434

And the woman
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

אמן 
'amen 
Usage: 30

Context Readings

Rules Concerning An Unfaithful Wife

21 then the priest is to have the woman commit to an oath by saying to the woman, "May the LORD make you a curse and a curse among your people. When the LORD makes your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell 22 and this water that brings a curse enters your abdomen, making it swell and your thigh waste away.' "Then the woman is to say "Amen.' 23 "Then the priest is to write all of these words in a document and wipe it off with the contaminated water.


Cross References

Psalm 109:18

He wore curses like a garment may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil.

Deuteronomy 27:15-26

""Cursed is the one who makes a sculptured or cast image a detestable thing to the LORD, the work of a craftsman and sets it up secretly.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, "Amen!'

Numbers 5:27

When he has had her drink the water, if she was defiled and had acted unfaithfully toward her husband, then the contaminated water that brings a curse will enter her and infect her, causing her abdomen to swell and her thigh to waste away. Then she is to be a cursed woman among her people.

Job 31:21-22

if I've raised my hand against an orphan when I thought I would against him in court,

Job 31:39-40

If I've consumed its produce without paying for it and snuffed out the life of its owners;

Psalm 7:4-5

if I have rewarded those who did me good with evil, if I have plundered my enemy without justification,

Psalm 41:13

Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from eternity to eternity. Amen and amen! To the Director: An instruction of the Sons of Korah.

Psalm 72:19

And blessed be his glorious name forever, and may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen!

Psalm 89:52

Blessed is the LORD forever! Amen and amen! A prayer by Moses, the godly man

Proverbs 1:31

They will eat the fruit of their way, and they will be filled with their own devices.

Ezekiel 3:3

Then he told me, "Son of Man, fill your stomach and digest this scroll that I'm giving you." So I ate it, and it was like sweet honey in my mouth.

John 3:3

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

John 3:11

Truly, I tell you emphatically, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.

John 5:24-25

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

John 6:53

So Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

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