¹⁹ The priest will require the woman to take an oath and will say to her, ‘If no man has slept with you, if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, be unaffected by this bitter water that brings a curse.

²⁸ But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she will be unaffected and will be able to conceive children.

³¹ The husband will be free of guilt, but that woman will bear the consequences of her guilt.”

⁹ But David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the Lord’s anointed and be blameless?”^(A)