NET Bible
"Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water."
— Numbers 5:26, NET Bible
“And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.”
“and the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering, as the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. ”
“The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.”
“To take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, and burn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman to drink.”
“And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter water.”
“And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.”
“‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.
He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness.
The priest will take the grain offering of suspicion from the woman’s hand, wave the grain offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.
Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.
When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness– her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.
But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.
“‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,