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 and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their ancestors?

‘The Lord was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it.

When a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.

“If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath

The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath:

‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more when they came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—