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Numbers 5:22-31 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

22. and these waters that bring a curse will go into your intestines to cause your womb to swell and to make your hip fall away.” And the women will say, “Amen. Amen.”

23. “ ‘And the priests will write these curses on the scroll, and he will wipe them off into the waters of the bitterness.

24. He will make the woman drink the waters of the bitterness that brings a curse, and the waters of bitterness that bring a curse will go into her.

25. The priest will take the grain offering of jealousy from the hand of the woman, and he will wave the grain offering before Yahweh, and he will present it to the altar;

26. the priest will grasp her memorial offering from the grain offering, and he will turn it into smoke on the altar, and afterward he will make the woman drink the waters.

27. When he has made her drink the waters, it will come about, if she has defiled herself and acted unfaithfully to her husband and the waters of bitterness that bring a curse go into her and her stomach swells and her hip falls away, the woman will be as a curse in the midst of her people.

28. And if the woman is not defiled, and she is pure, she will go unpunished and be able to conceive children.

29. “ ‘This is the regulation of jealousy, when a woman has an affair under her husband and she is defiled,

30. or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he will present the woman before Yahweh,and the priest will do to her all of this law.

31. The man will go unpunished from guilt, and the woman, she will bear her guilt.’ ”

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