Parallel Verses

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).”

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' (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) 'the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your body swell. 22 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.” 23 "Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.

Cross References

Psalm 109:18

He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!

Deuteronomy 27:15-26

"'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.'And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

Numbers 5:27

And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

Job 31:21-22

if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Job 31:39-40

if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last,

Psalm 7:4-5

if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

Psalm 41:13

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.

Psalm 72:19

Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen!

Psalm 89:52

Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.

Proverbs 1:31

therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.

Ezekiel 3:3

And he said to me, "Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it."Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.

John 3:3

Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."

John 3:11

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.

John 5:24-25

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

John 6:53

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

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