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If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,
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He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.
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The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.
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And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.
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And when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and the oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter waters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration.
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And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband’s bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not hurt thee.
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But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:
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These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot, and may thy belly swell and burst asunder.
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Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly, and may thy womb swell and thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer, Amen, amen.
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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the curses,
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And he shall give them her to drink. And when she hath drunk them up,