Numbers 5
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Numbers 5:18-20

18After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.

19Then 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.

20But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”—

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