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.
24. He will require the woman to drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause bitter suffering.
25. The priest is to take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, wave the offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar.
26. The priest is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar. Then he will require the woman to drink the water.
27. “When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, and her thigh will shrivel. She will become a curse among her people.
28. But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she will be unaffected and will be able to conceive children.
29. “This is the law regarding jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
30. or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he becomes jealous of his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest will apply this entire ritual to her.
31. The husband will be free of guilt, but that woman will bear the consequences of her guilt.”