20. But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband’ –
21. here the priest is to put the woman under this curse – ‘may the Lord cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.
22. May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.’‘ “Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen. So be it.’
23. ‘ “The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
24. He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.