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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| vs | NIV | KJV |
| 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. |