Bible Verses

may the Lord make of you an example and a curse among your people, making your breast shrink, and your stomach swell!

But if it is true that you have gone astray and have disgraced yourself by sharing your bed with a man other than your husband,

He is then to make the woman agree to take an oath. He shall tell her: If it is not true that a man has slept with you, that you have gone astray and disgraced yourself while under your husband’s authority, then may this water of bitterness and cursing do you no harm.

After he has placed the woman before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and put in her hands the commemorative offering (that is, the offering for jealousy). In his own hands, the priest will hold the bowl containing bitter water that brings a curse.

Then he shall take living water in an earthen jar, and on the water throw dust that he has taken from the floor of the Holy Tent.

The priest then brings the woman forward and stands her before the Lord.

In these cases, the man must bring his wife before the priest and, on her behalf, offer two pounds of barley flour. He is not to pour oil or put incense on it because this is an ‘offering for jealousy,’ a memorial offering to record a fault.

then, perhaps the spirit of jealousy will come over the husband and make him jealous for the wife who has disgraced herself. But maybe the spirit of jealousy comes upon the husband and makes him jealous of his wife, even though she is innocent.

sleeping with some other man without the husband’s knowledge, and she disgraces herself in secret in this way, without any witness against her, and without anyone catching her in the act;

 “Say this to the people of Israel: If anyone has a wife who goes astray and is unfaithful to him,