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Numbers 5:19-31 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

19. ‘And the priest shall make her swear, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness under your husband’s authority, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.

20. “But if you have turned aside under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you” –

21. then the priest shall make the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman – “יהוה make you a curse and an oath among your people, when יהוה makes your thigh waste away and your belly swell,

22. and this water that causes the curse shall go into your inward parts, and make your belly swell and your thigh waste away.” And the woman shall say, “Amĕn, amĕn.”

23. ‘And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wipe them off into the bitter water,

24. and shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her to become bitter.

25. ‘And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before יהוה, and bring it to the altar.

26. ‘And the priest shall take a hand filled with the offering, as its remembrance offering, and burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.

27. ‘And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that brings the curse shall enter her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall waste away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

28. ‘But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be clear and shall conceive children.

29. ‘This is the Torah of jealousy, when a wife turns aside under her husband’s authority and defiles herself,

30. or when a spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife. Then he shall make the woman stand before יהוה, and the priest shall do to her all this Torah.

31. ‘And the man shall be clear from crookedness, but the woman bear her crookedness.’ ”

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