Catholic Public Domain Version
"This is the law for jealousy. If a woman has turned aside from her husband, and if she has been polluted, "
— Numbers 5:29, Catholic Public Domain Version
“This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;”
“This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled; ”
“"'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;”
““‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,”
“This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,”
“This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;”
“This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;”
takes a handful of the sacrifice from that which is offered, and burns it upon the altar, and then he may give the most bitter waters to the woman as a drink.
And when she drinks it, if she has been defiled, and, having despised her husband, is guilty of adultery, the curse shall pass through her, and as her belly swells up, her thigh shall decay, and the woman shall become a curse and an example to all the people.
But if she has not been defiled, she shall be unharmed and she shall bear children.
This is the law for jealousy. If a woman has turned aside from her husband, and if she has been polluted,
and if the husband, being stirred up by the spirit of jealousy, has brought her before the sight of the Lord, and the priest has acted toward her according to all that has been written:
then the husband shall be without guilt, and she shall bear her iniquity.”