10. Each one’s sacred holy gifts are his own, but whatever each man gives to the kohen belongs to that kohen.”
11. Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
12. “Speak to Bnei-Yisrael and say to them: Suppose some man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,
13. and another man has sexual relations with her, but it is hidden from her husband’s eyes and her impurity is not detected. Yet there was no witness against her and she was not caught in the act.
14. Then a spirit of jealousy overcomes him and he is suspicious of his wife, when she is impure. Or a spirit of jealousy overcomes him and he suspects his wife, yet she is not impure.
15. “Then he should take his wife to the kohen. He must also bring a tenth of an ephah of barley flour as an offering for her. He is not to pour oil or put incense on it, because it is an offering for jealousy, a reminder offering drawing attention to guiltiness.
16. “The kohen is to bring her near and have her stand before Adonai.
17. Then the kohen is to take some holy water in a clay jar and take some dust from the floor of the Tabernacle and put it into the water.
18. Then the kohen will have the woman stand before Adonai, loosen the woman’s hair, put into her hands the reminder offering, the offering for jealousy, while in the kohen’s own hands are the bitter waters that bring a curse.
19. Then the kohen will have her swear under oath, then say to the woman, ‘If no man other than your husband has slept with you, and if you have not gone astray into impurity from your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.
20. If, however, you have gone astray from your husband and if you became impure and had sexual relations with a man other than your husband’—
21. Then the kohen is to have the woman swear under this oath of a curse, and say to the woman—‘then let Adonai cause you to be cursed and denounced among your people when Adonai causes your thigh to rot and your belly to swell.
22. “May this water which brings a curse enter your body and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to rot.’ “The woman is to say, ‘Amen, amen!’
23. “Then the kohen is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them into the waters of bitterness.
24. The kohen will then have the woman drink the bitter water bearing curses, so that the water of the curses of bitterness enters her.