26. He will take a handful of the flour as a token portion and burn it on the altar, and he will require the woman to drink the water.
27. If she has defiled herself by being unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings on the curse will cause bitter suffering. Her abdomen will swell and her womb will shrink, and her name will become a curse among her people.
28. But if she has not defiled herself and is pure, then she will be unharmed and will still be able to have children.
29. “This is the ritual law for dealing with suspicion. If a woman goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
30. or if a man becomes jealous and is suspicious that his wife has been unfaithful, the husband must present his wife before the lord, and the priest will apply this entire ritual law to her.
31. The husband will be innocent of any guilt in this matter, but his wife will be held accountable for her sin.”