The Scriptures 1998

Numbers 5:19-23 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

19. ‘And the priest shall make her swear, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness under your husband’s authority, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.

20. “But if you have turned aside under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you” –

21. then the priest shall make the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman – “יהוה make you a curse and an oath among your people, when יהוה makes your thigh waste away and your belly swell,

22. and this water that causes the curse shall go into your inward parts, and make your belly swell and your thigh waste away.” And the woman shall say, “Amĕn, amĕn.”

23. ‘And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wipe them off into the bitter water,