Parallel Verses
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.’
New American Standard Bible
and this water that brings a curse shall go into your
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.
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.'
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.
Themes
Amen » A word used to reenforce a statement
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Interlinear
Mayim
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 5:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Rules Concerning An Unfaithful Wife
21
at this point the priest must make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her—‘May the Lord make you into an object of your people’s cursing and swearing when He makes your thigh
“And the woman must reply, ‘Amen, Amen.’
23
“Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 109:18
let it enter his body like water
and go into his bones like oil.
Deuteronomy 27:15-26
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen!’
Numbers 5:27
“When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, and her thigh will shrivel. She will become a curse among her people.
Job 31:21-22
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,
Job 31:39-40
or shown contempt for its tenants,
Psalm 7:4-5
or have plundered
Psalm 41:13
from everlasting to everlasting.
Amen and amen.
Psalm 72:19
the whole earth is filled with His glory.
Amen and amen.
Psalm 89:52
Amen and amen.
Proverbs 1:31
and be glutted with their own schemes.
Ezekiel 3:3
“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat
John 3:3
Jesus replied,
John 3:11
John 5:24-25
John 6:53
So Jesus said to them,