Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband's authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.

But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,

And if you do go with us, whatever good the Lord will do to us, the same will we do to you.”

If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”

Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,

Laws About Unintentional Sins

“But if you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses,

And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.”

For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”

So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the Lord for the war,

But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.