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22 Now may this water that brings the curse enter your body and cause your abdomen to swell and your womb to shrivel.[a]’ And the woman will be required to say, ‘Yes, let it be so.’ 23 And the priest will write these curses on a piece of leather and wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings on the curse. When the water enters her body, it will cause bitter suffering if she is guilty.

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  1. 5:22 Hebrew and your thigh to waste away.

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