Numbers 5:19-28
5:19 Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say to the her, “If no other
man has had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.
5:20 But if you
have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”
5:21 Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse
and will say
to the her, “The
Lord make you an attested curse
among your people,
if the
Lord makes
your thigh fall away
and your abdomen swell;
5:22 and this water that causes the curse will go
into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.”
Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.”
5:23 “‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.
5:24 He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness.
5:25 The priest will take the grain offering of suspicion from the woman’s hand, wave the grain offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar.
5:26 Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.
5:27 When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness – her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.
5:28 But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.