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Numbers 5:27Num.5.27

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

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Quand il aura fait boire les eaux, il arrivera, si elle s'est souillée et a été infidèle à son mari, que les eaux qui apportent la malédiction entreront en elle pour produire l'amertume; son ventre s'enflera, sa cuisse se desséchera, et cette femme sera en malédiction au milieu de son peuple.

KJV

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

Patristic reading

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  • Philo Judaeus

    Legum Allegoriarum Libri I-III

    ανὴ γὰρ καὶ αὕτη παρὰ θεοῦ τῷ φιλαρέτῳ δωρεά. διὰ τοῦτο ἐπὶ τῆς ὑπονοηθείσης διεφθάρθαι ψυχῆς φησιν (Num. 5, 27), ὅτι ἂν μὲν ἀπολελοιπυῖα τὸν ὀρθὸν λόγον, ὅς ἐστιν ἀνὴρ νόμιμος, εὑρεθῇ προσκεχωρηκυῖα τῷ μιαίνοντι τὴν ψυχὴν πάθει, „πρησθήσεται τὴν γαστέρα“, ὅπερ ἦν, ἀπληρώτους καὶ…

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    s woman rotted, when she had drunk the water "on which" the priest had "heaped curses," as stated in Num. 5:19-27. Whether the ceremonies of the Old Law ceased at the coming of Christ? Objection 1: It would seem that the ceremonies of the Old Law did not cease at the coming of Ch…

  • Gregory the Great + Ephraem Syrus + Aphrahat

    NPNF-213. Gregory the Great (II), Ephraim Syrus, Aphrahat

    2 33 33:11 33:11 33:20 33:22 34:14 37 Leviticus 14:52 18:7 20:18 21:12 23:10 23:11 26:12 26:12 26:44 Numbers 5:17-27 11:17 12:1 13 14:10 16:32-33 20 24:17 25:6-15 27 Deuteronomy 4:2 4:2 4:17 5:15 14:1 29:23 32:7 32:15 32:21 32:25 32:32 32:32 32:39 32:39 32:39 32:39 32:39 33:6 33:…

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