22 and this water that brings a curse shall go into your [a]stomach, to make your belly swell up and your thigh [b]shrivel.” And the woman (A)shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

23 ‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall [c]wash them off into the water of bitterness. 24 Then he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings a curse, so that the water which brings a curse will go into her [d]and cause bitterness.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:22 Or inward parts
  2. Numbers 5:22 Lit collapse
  3. Numbers 5:23 Lit wipe
  4. Numbers 5:24 Lit for bitterness

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