Numbers 5:18-24 And the priest shall present the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman's head. Then he shall put the sacrifice of remembrance; the sacrifice of jealousy into her hands; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of discovery over which an imprecation is to be made;

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ And the priest shall present the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman's head. Then he shall put the sacrifice of remembrance; the sacrifice of jealousy into her hands; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of discovery over which an imprecation is to be made; ¹⁹ and the priest shall adjure the woman, and say to her, If no man hath lain with thee; if thou hast not transgressed, so as to be defiled, while under the jurisdiction of thy husband; be thou uninjured by this water of discovery, over which an imprecation is to be made: ²⁰ but if thou hast transgressed, being a married woman, or art polluted, and any person besides thy husband hath lain with thee, ²¹ [then the priest shall adjure the woman with solemn imprecations, and the priest shall say to the woman] the Lord make thee a curse and an imprecation in the midst of thy people, by causing thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to be inflamed. ²² Let this water over which this imprecation is made, go into thy belly, to inflame thy belly, and rot thy thigh. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen. ²³ Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and dip it in the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made, ²⁴ and shall cause the woman to drink the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made. And the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made, shall go into her;