21 (then the priest shall have the woman (A)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 (B)shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

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

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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
  5. Numbers 5:23 Lit wipe

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