19. The priest will then put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has had sex with you, and you have not gone astray and defiled yourself while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune from the effects of this bitter water that brings on the curse.
20. But if you have gone astray by being unfaithful to your husband, and have defiled yourself by having sex with another man—’
21. “At this point the priest must put the woman under oath by saying, ‘May the people know that the lord’s curse is upon you when he makes you infertile, causing your womb to shrivel and your abdomen to swell.
22. Now 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.’
23. And the priest will write these curses on a piece of leather and wash them off into the bitter water.
24. He 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.