20. But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”—
21. here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.
22. May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.” “ ‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”
23. “ ‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
24. He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.