Numbers 5:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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;

The Lord make thee a curse ... - a usual form of imprecation (Isaiah 65:15; Jeremiah 29:22).

Numbers 5:21

21 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,b and thy belly to swell;