Numbers 5
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Numbers 5:22-27

22Now may this water that brings the curse enter your body and cause your abdomen to swell and your womb to shrivel.’ And the woman will be required to say, ‘Yes, let it be so.’

23And the priest will write these curses on a piece of leather and wash them off into the bitter water.

24He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings on the curse. When the water enters her body, it will cause bitter suffering if she is guilty.

25“The priest will take the jealousy offering from the woman’s hand, lift it up before the Lord, and carry it to the altar.

26He will take a handful of the flour as a token portion and burn it on the altar, and he will require the woman to drink the water.

27If she has defiled herself by being unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings on the curse will cause bitter suffering. Her abdomen will swell and her womb will shrink, and her name will become a curse among her people.

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