Catholic Public Domain Version
"But if you have turned away from your husband, and also have been defiled, and have lain together with another man, "
— Numbers 5:20, Catholic Public Domain 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:”
“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: ”
“But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"”
“But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….””
“But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:”
“But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:”
“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:”
And he shall take up holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth from the pavement of the tabernacle into it.
And while the woman stands before the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and he shall place over her hands the sacrifice of recollection and oblation of jealousy. But he shall take hold of the most bitter waters, in which he has gathered curses with loathing.
And he shall bind her by an oath, and he shall say: ‘If another man has not slept with you, and if you have not been polluted by forsaking the bed of your husband, these most bitter waters, into which I have gathered curses, shall not harm you.
But if you have turned away from your husband, and also have been defiled, and have lain together with another man,
these curses shall be thrown upon you: May the Lord turn you into a curse and an example among all his people. May he cause your thigh to rot, and may your abdomen swell up and burst out.
May the cursed waters enter into your stomach, and may your womb swell and your thigh rot.’ And the woman shall respond: ‘Amen, amen.’
And the priest shall write these curses in a little book, and then he shall erase them with the very bitter waters, into which he had gathered the curses,