And let the priest bring her
and set her before the LORD, and let him take holy water in an earthen
vessel and of the dust that is in the floor of the habitation, and put
it into the water. And the priest shall set the wife before the LORD
and uncover her head, and put the memorial of the offering in her hands
which is the jealousy offering, and the priest shall have bitter and
cursing water in his hand, and he shall conjure her and shall say unto
her: If no man have lien with thee neither hast gone aside, and defiled
thyself behind thy husband, then have thou no harm of this bitter
cursing water. But and if thou hast gone aside behind thine husband and
art defiled and some other man hath lien with thee beside thine husband
(and let the priest conjure her with the conjuration of the curse and
say unto her) the LORD make thee a curse and a conjuration among thy
people: so that the LORD make thy thigh rot, and thy belly swell and
this bitter cursing water go into the bowels of thee, that thy belly
swell and thy thigh rot, and the wife shall say: Amen Amen. And the
priest shall write this curse in a bill and wash it out in the bitter
water. And when the cursing water is in her that it is bitter, then let
the priest take the jealousy offering out of the wife's hand, and wave
it before the LORD, and bring it unto the altar: and he shall take an
handful of the memorial offering and burn it upon the altar, and then
make her drink the water and when he hath made her drink the water. If
she be defiled and have trespassed against her husband, then shall the
cursing water go into her and be so bitter, that her belly shall swell
and her thigh shall rot, and she shall be a curse among her people. And
if she be not defiled but is clean, then she shall have no harm, but
that she may conceive. This is the law of jealousy, when a wife goeth a
side behind her husband and is defiled, or when the spirit of jealousy
cometh upon a man, so that he is jealous over his wife: then he shall
bring her before the LORD, and the priest shall minister all this law
unto her, and the man shall be guiltless, and the wife shall bear her
sin.
Chapter .vi.
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