Numbers 5:20

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Numbers 5:20

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Berean Standard Bible

But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—

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KJV

King James Version

But if thou hast gone aside [to another] instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

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WEB

World English Bible

But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—”

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ASV

American Standard Version

But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

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Numbers 5

¹⁸ After the priest has the woman stand before the LORD, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering for jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse.

¹⁹ And he is to put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune to this bitter water that brings a curse.

²⁰ But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—

²¹ and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.

²² May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’

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