18. The priest will make the woman stand before the Lord, let the hair of the woman hang down, and place the grain offering for recognition, that is, the grain offering for jealousy, in her hands. The water of bitterness that brings the curse will be in the hands of the priest.
19. Then the priest will make her swear a solemn pledge, saying to the woman, "If no man has slept with you and if you haven’t had an affair, becoming defiled while married to your husband, then be immune from the water of bitterness that brings these curses.
20. But if you have had an affair while married to your husband, if you have defiled yourself, and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you"—
21. then the priest must make the woman utter the curse and say to the woman, "May the Lord make you a curse and a harmful pledge among your people, when the Lord induces a miscarriage and your womb discharges.
22. And may the water that brings these curses enter your stomach and make your womb discharge and make you miscarry."And the woman will say, "I agree, I agree."
23. The priest will write these curses in the scroll and wipe them off into the water of bitterness.
24. Then he will make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse. And the water that brings the curse will enter her, causing bitterness.
25. The priest will take the grain offering for jealousy from the woman’s hands, elevate the grain offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar.
26. The priest will take a handful of the grain offering as a token part of it and turn it into smoke on the altar. And afterward he will make the woman drink the water.
27. When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, then the water that brings the curse will enter her, causing bitterness, and her womb will discharge and she will miscarry. The woman will be a curse among her people.
28. But if the woman hasn’t defiled herself and she is pure, then she will be immune and able to conceive.
29. These are the instructions about jealousy, when a wife has an affair while married to her husband and defiles herself,
30. or when jealousy overcomes a man and he is jealous of his wife. The priest will make the woman stand before the Lord and will follow all these instructions concerning her.