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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.

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.’

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).”

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 will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach; 22 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. 23 And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water;


Cross References

Psalm 109:18

He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

Deuteronomy 27:15-26

Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

Numbers 5:27

And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

Job 31:21-22

If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

Job 31:39-40

If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

Psalm 7:4-5

If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

Psalm 41:13

May the Lord God of Israel be praised, through eternal days and for ever. So be it. So be it.

Psalm 72:19

Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.

Psalm 89:52

Let the Lord be praised for ever. So be it, So be it.

Proverbs 1:31

So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

Ezekiel 3:3

And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

John 3:3

Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

John 3:11

Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

John 5:24-25

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

John 6:53

Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.

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