20 if you, however, have (A)gone astray, being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you” 21 (then the priest shall have the woman (B)swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people by the Lord’s making your thigh [a]waste away and your abdomen swell; 22 and this water that brings a curse shall go into your [b]stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh [c]waste away.” And the woman (C)shall say, “Amen. Amen.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:21 Lit fall
  2. Numbers 5:22 Or inward parts
  3. Numbers 5:22 Lit fall