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20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has slept with you” –  21 at this point the priest will make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her – “May the Lord make you into an object of your people’s cursing and swearing when he makes your womb[a] shrivel and your belly swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach, causing your belly to swell and your womb to shrivel.”

‘And the woman will reply, “Amen, Amen.”

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Footnotes

  1. 5:21 Lit thigh, also in vv. 22,27