Sinai LogoSinai

Numbers 5:27

World English Bible

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.

Read all of Numbers 5Open in the Sinai app

Numbers 5:27 in other translations

And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

Numbers 5:27 · American Standard Version

Numbers 5:27 in context

  1. 25The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.
  2. 26The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
  3. 27When 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.
  4. 28If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.
  5. 29“ ‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,