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20 But if you have had an affair under your husband, and if you are defiled and a man other than your husband had intercourse with you,” 21 the priest will make the woman swear an oath of the sworn oath of the curse, the priest will say to the woman, “May Yahweh give you a curse and a sworn oath in the midst of your people with Yahweh making[a] your hip fall away[b] and your stomach swollen; 22 and these waters that bring a curse will go into your intestines to cause your womb to swell and to make your hip fall away.”[c] And the women will say, “Amen. Amen.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:21 Hebrew “giving”
  2. Numbers 5:21 Or “waste away”
  3. Numbers 5:22 Or “waste away”