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Numbers 5:26-31 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

26. and burn part of it as a sacrifice. After that, the woman must drink the bitter water.

27. If the woman has been unfaithful, the water will immediately make her unable to have children, and she will be a curse among her people.

28. But if she is innocent, her body will not be harmed, and she will still be able to have children.

29-30. This is the ceremony that must take place at my altar when a husband suspects that his wife has been unfaithful. The priest must make the woman stand in my presence and carefully follow these instructions.

31. If the husband is wrong, he will not be punished; but if his wife is guilty, she will be punished.

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