Tree Of Life Version

Numbers 5:22-31 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

22. “May this water which brings a curse enter your body and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to rot.’ “The woman is to say, ‘Amen, amen!’

23. “Then the kohen is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them into the waters of bitterness.

24. The kohen will then have the woman drink the bitter water bearing curses, so that the water of the curses of bitterness enters her.

25. The kohen is to take the jealousy offering from the woman’s hand, wave the offering before Adonai and bring it to the altar.

26. The kohen is to take a handful of the grain offering and burn it up in smoke on the altar as a memorial offering. The kohen will then have the woman drink the water.

27. “When she is made to drink the water that carries the curse, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, it will enter her and cause bitterness—her abdomen will swell and her thigh will waste away. She will be accursed among her people.

28. If, however, the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be free from guilt and be able to have children.

29. “This is the Torah regarding jealousy, when a woman goes astray from her husband and defiles herself,

30. or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he jealously suspects his wife. The kohen is to have her stand before Adonai and apply this entire Torah to her.

31. The husband will be free of guilt, but that woman will bear her guilt.”