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Numbers 5:20-24 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

20. But if you have turned away from your husband, and also have been defiled, and have lain together with another man,

21. these curses shall be thrown upon you: May the Lord turn you into a curse and an example among all his people. May he cause your thigh to rot, and may your abdomen swell up and burst out.

22. May the cursed waters enter into your stomach, and may your womb swell and your thigh rot.' And the woman shall respond: 'Amen, amen.'

23. And the priest shall write these curses in a little book, and then he shall erase them with the very bitter waters, into which he had gathered the curses,

24. and he shall give it to her to drink. And when she has emptied it,

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