Numbers 5:20
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—”
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Numbers 5:20
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—”
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Numbers 5:18
The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
Numbers 5:19
The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
Numbers 5:20
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—”
Numbers 5:21
then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
Numbers 5:22
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.”
Matthew 26:63
But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
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Numbers 5:23
“ ‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
Numbers 5:24
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.
Numbers 5:27
When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people.
Numbers 5:28
If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.
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