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Numbers 5:25-29

Numbers 5:25

And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, and he shall wave the grain offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar;

Numbers 5:26

and the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as its reminder offering and offer it up in smoke on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.

Numbers 5:27

When he has made her drink the water, then it will come about, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings a curse will go into her and cause bitterness, and her belly will swell up and her thigh will shrivel, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

Numbers 5:28

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be immune and conceive children.

Numbers 5:29

‘This is the law of jealousy: when a wife, who is under the authority of her husband, goes astray and defiles herself,