15. He must take his wife to the priest, together with one kilogramme of ground barley as an offering to find out if she is guilty. No olive oil or incense is to be put on that offering.
16. The priest is to make the woman stand at my altar,
17. where he will pour sacred water into a clay jar and stir in some dust from the floor of the sacred tent.
18-22. Next, he will remove her veil, then hand her the barley offering, and say, “If you have been faithful to your husband, this water won't harm you. But if you have been unfaithful, it will bring down the Lord's curse—you will never be able to give birth to a child, and everyone will curse your name.”Then the woman will answer, “If I am guilty, let it happen just as you say.”
23. The priest will write these curses on special paper and wash them off into the bitter water,
24. so that when the woman drinks this water, the curses will enter her body.
25. He will take the barley offering from her and lift it up in dedication to me, the Lord. Then he will place it on my altar
26. and burn part of it as a sacrifice. After that, the woman must drink the bitter water.
27. If the woman has been unfaithful, the water will immediately make her unable to have children, and she will be a curse among her people.