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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.”

23 “‘And the priests will write these curses on the scroll, and he will wipe them off into the waters of the bitterness.

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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”