OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 5:21

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

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Verse 21. Curse. Hebrew “an object of execration, and an oath,” and so forth so that people can wish no greater misfortune to befall any one, than what thou shalt endure. Bible.

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