What does Numbers 5:21 mean?
ESV: then’ (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) ‘the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your body swell.
NIV: here the priest is to put the woman under this curse--'may the LORD cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.
NASB: (then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), 'may the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people by the Lord’S making your thigh shriveled and your belly swollen;
CSB: at this point the priest will make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her--'May the Lord make you into an object of your people's cursing and swearing when he makes your womb shrivel and your belly swell.
NLT: At this point the priest must put the woman under oath by saying, ‘May the people know that the Lord’s curse is upon you when he makes you infertile, causing your womb to shrivel and your abdomen to swell.
KJV: 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;
NKJV: then the priest shall put the woman under the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman— “the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh rot and your belly swell;
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