Numbers 5:17-24

New International Version

¹⁷ Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. ¹⁸ After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair^(A) and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy,^(B) while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.^{(C) 19} Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray^(D) and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse^(E) not harm you. ²⁰ But if you have gone astray^(F) while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— ²¹ here the priest is to put the woman under this curse^(G)—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse^[a] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. ²² May this water^(H) that brings a curse^(I) enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”

“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.^(J)”

²³ “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll^(K) and then wash them off into the bitter water. ²⁴ He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.