Neville Goddard on Numbers 5:19-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

19And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

20But 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:

21Then 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;

Numbers 5:19-21

Biblical Context

The text records a priest's oath procedure: if the woman is not defiled, she is free from the bitter water; if she is defiled, a curse is pronounced. It frames guilt and consequence as an external ritual.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's voice, think of the scene as a map of your inner life. The woman is your awareness, the oath is a stubborn belief about guilt, and the curse is the felt outcome of living in that belief. The priest represents the voice of external law inside you, the part that insists on punishment for imagined transgressions. But the true LORD is the I AM—consciousness that never alters. When you recognize that the oath has power only as long as you accept it, you can reverse it by assuming a new state. See the bitter water as the color of fear and self-judgment moving through the body, signaling the old script’s end. You do not perish; you awaken to your wholeness by declaring, I am free from guilt; I am the I AM. The curse dissolves not by fighting it but by shifting perception to unity with God within. If you persist in this new assumption, you rewrite the scene: there is no defilement, only the radiant presence of awareness, and your life aligns with a different, blessed outcome.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, steady your breath, and assume the state I am free from guilt. Feel-it-real as the awareness that you are one with God, and notice the old sense of condemnation soften and vanish.