20. But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has slept with you’ —
21. at this point the priest must make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her — ‘May the Lord make you into an object of your people’s cursing and swearing when He makes your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.
22. May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach, causing your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’“And the woman must reply, ‘Amen, Amen.’
23. “Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.