Numbers 5:21
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These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot, and may thy belly swell and burst asunder.

Numbers 5:27
And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having despised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse, and an example to all the people.

Joshua 6:26
Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build the city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation thereof, and in the last of his children set up its gates.

1 Samuel 14:24
And the men of Israel were joined together that day: and Saul adjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till evening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.

Nehemiah 10:29
All that could understand, promising for their brethren, with their chief men, and they came to promise, and swear that they would walk in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of Moses the servant of God, that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord our God, and his judgments and his ceremonies.

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These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot, and may thy belly swell and burst asunder.

an oath

Joshua 6:26 Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build the city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation thereof, and in the last of his children set up its gates.

1 Samuel 14:24 And the men of Israel were joined together that day: and Saul adjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till evening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.

Nehemiah 10:29 All that could understand, promising for their brethren, with their chief men, and they came to promise, and swear that they would walk in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of Moses the servant of God, that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord our God, and his judgments and his ceremonies.

Matthew 26:74 Then he began to curse and to swear that he knew not the man. And immediately the cock crew.

The Lord make

Isaiah 65:15 And you shall leave your name for an execration to my elect: and the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name.

Jeremiah 29:22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Juda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias, and like Achab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire:

rot.

2 Chronicles 21:15 And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels, till thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.

Proverbs 10:7 The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Context
The Adultery Test
20But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man: 21These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot, and may thy belly swell and burst asunder.22Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly, and may thy womb swell and thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer, Amen, amen.…
Lexicon
then the priest
הַכֹּהֵ֥ן (hak·kō·hên)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3548: Priest

shall have the woman
הָֽאִשָּׁה֮ (hā·’iš·šāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

swear
וְהִשְׁבִּ֨יעַ (wə·hiš·bî·a‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7650: To seven oneself, swear

under the oath
בִּשְׁבֻעַ֣ת (biš·ḇu·‘aṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7621: Something sworn, an oath

of the curse—
הָאָלָה֒ (hā·’ā·lāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 423: An imprecation

‘May the LORD
יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

make
יִתֵּ֨ן (yit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

you
אוֹתָ֛ךְ (’ō·w·ṯāḵ)
Direct object marker | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

an attested
לְאָלָ֥ה (lə·’ā·lāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 423: An imprecation

curse
וְלִשְׁבֻעָ֖ה (wə·liš·ḇu·‘āh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7621: Something sworn, an oath

among
בְּת֣וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8432: A bisection, the centre

your people
עַמֵּ֑ךְ (‘am·mêḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

if [He]
יְהוָ֤ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

makes
בְּתֵ֨ת (bə·ṯêṯ)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

your thigh
יְרֵכֵךְ֙ (yə·rê·ḵêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3409: Thigh,loin, flank, side

shrivel
נֹפֶ֔לֶת (nō·p̄e·leṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5307: To fall, lie

and your belly
בִּטְנֵ֖ךְ (biṭ·nêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 990: The belly, the womb, the bosom, body of anything

swell.
צָבָֽה׃ (ṣā·ḇāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6638: To amass, grow turgid, to array an army against


Additional Translations
then the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘May the LORD make you an attested curse among your people if He makes your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD does make your thigh to rot, and your belly to swell;

then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell;

then the priest shall adjure the woman by the oaths of this curse, and the priest shall say to the woman, The Lord bring thee into a curse and under an oath in the midst of thy people, in that the Lord should cause thy thigh to rot and thy belly to swell;

-- then the priest shall adjure the woman with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman: Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to shrink, and thy belly to swell;

then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the 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 fall away, and thy belly to swell;

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

then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, "Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

(then the priest hath caused the woman to swear with an oath of execration, and the priest hath said to the woman) -- Jehovah doth give thee for an execration, and for a curse, in the midst of thy people, in Jehovah's giving thy thigh to fall, and thy belly to swell,
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