17. In an earthen vessel he shall take holy water, as well as some dust from the floor of the tabernacle and put it in the water.
18. Making the woman stand before the Lord, the priest shall uncover her head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, that is, the grain offering of jealousy, while he himself shall hold the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
19. Then the priest shall adjure the woman, saying to her, “If no other man has had intercourse with you, and you have not gone astray by defiling yourself while under the authority of your husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
20. But if you have gone astray while under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you”—
21. so shall the priest adjure the woman with this imprecation—“may the Lord make you a curse and malediction among your people by causing your uterus to fall and your belly to swell!
22. May this water, then, that brings a curse, enter your bowels to make your belly swell and your uterus fall!” And the woman shall say, “Amen, amen!”
23. The priest shall put these curses in writing and shall then wash them off into the water of bitterness,
24. and he will have the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings a curse, so that the water that brings a curse may enter into her to her bitter hurt.