Numbers 5:27-31
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,
Numbers 5:30
or when an attitude of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he shall then have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest shall apply all of this law to her.
Numbers 5:31
The man, moreover, will be free of guilt, but that woman shall bear the consequences of her guilt.’ ”