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Numbers 5:22 and Abortion

  • Is Numbers 5:22 teaching a priest how to cause an abortion?
  • How do you justify a pro-life position and this passage?
  • What related verses would you bring into the discussion?
Numberbs 5:20-22
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20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband — But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
21 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. 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;
22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries. And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.