26 And the Priest shall take an handful of the offering for a [a]memorial thereof, and burn it upon the [b]altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.

27 When he hath made her drink the water, if she be defiled and have trespassed against her husband, then shall the cursed water, turned into bitterness, enter into her, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be accursed among her people.

28 But if the woman be not defiled, but be [c]clean, she shall be free, and shall conceive and bear.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:26 Or, perfume.
  2. Numbers 5:26 Where the incense was offered.
  3. Numbers 5:28 Or, innocent.

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