21 (Then the Priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the Priest shall say unto the woman:) The Lord make thee to be [a]accursed, and detestable for the oath among the people, and the Lord cause thy thigh to [b]rot, and thy belly to swell:

22 And that this cursed water may go into thy bowels, to cause thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot. Then the woman shall answer, [c]Amen, Amen.

23 After, the Priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall [d]blot them out with the bitter water,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:21 Both because she had committed so heinous a fault, and forsware herself in denying the same.
  2. Numbers 5:21 Hebrew, to fall.
  3. Numbers 5:22 That is, be it so, as thou wishest, as Ps. 41:23; Deut. 27:15.
  4. Numbers 5:23 Shall wash the curses, which are written, into the water in the vessel.

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