Numbers 5:11–28

¹¹And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ¹²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, ¹³and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither ^mshe be taken with the manner; ¹⁴and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: ¹⁵then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; ⁿhe shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, ^obringing iniquity to remembrance. ¹⁶And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord: ¹⁷and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: ¹⁸and the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: ¹⁹and the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: ²⁰but if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man hath lain with thee beside thine husband: ²¹then the priest shall ^pcharge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, ^qThe Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; ²²and this water that causeth the curse ^rshall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, ^sAmen, amen. ²³And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: ²⁴and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. ²⁵Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall ^twave the offering before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar: ²⁶and the priest ^ushall take a handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. ²⁷And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman ^xshall be a curse among her people. ²⁸And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.