20 if, however, you have (A)gone astray, though under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had sexual intercourse with you” 21 (then the priest shall have the woman (B)swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “may the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people by the Lords making your thigh [a]shriveled and your [b]belly swollen; 22 and this water that brings a curse shall go into your [c]stomach, to make your belly swell up and your thigh [d]shrivel.” And the woman (C)shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:21 Lit collapsed
  2. Numbers 5:21 Possibly the womb, and so throughout the ch
  3. Numbers 5:22 Or inward parts
  4. Numbers 5:22 Lit collapse

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