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21 (then the priest shall have the woman (A)swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people by Yahweh making your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell; 22 and this water that brings curses shall go into your [a]stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thigh fall away.” And the woman (B)shall say, “Amen. Amen.”

23 ‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall [b]wash them off into the water of bitterness.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:22 Or inward parts
  2. Numbers 5:23 Lit wipe