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Numbers 5:18-25 Modern English Version (MEV)

18. And the priest will set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the memorial offering in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy, and the priest will have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse.

19. And the priest will charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to impurity with another instead of your husband, be free from this bitter water that causes the curse.

20. But if you have gone astray to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and a man besides your husband has lain with you”—

21. then the priest will charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest will say to the woman, “The Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh rot and your belly swell.

22. And this water that causes the curse will go into your bowels, to make your belly swell and your thigh rot.”And the woman will say, “Amen, amen.”

23. The priest will write these curses in a book, and he will wash them out with the bitter water.

24. And he will cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter.

25. Then the priest will take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand and will wave the offering before the Lord and offer it on the altar.

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