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Numbers 5:21

King James Version (KJV)

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Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

Numbers 5:21 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Numbers 5:21

Theological / Devotional

Make thee a curse. When cursing or taking an oath, people would recall her name in their imprecations called down upon offenders, saying, “May Jehovah make you like that woman.”

Thy thigh. Meaning, perhaps, that the woman would not again give birth to a healthy child (see v. 28). She would thus become a bitter disappointment to her husband, unable to build up his house.

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