12-14 to say to the people of Israel:Suppose a man becomes jealous and suspects that his wife has been unfaithful, but he has no proof.
15 He must take his wife to the priest, together with one kilogram of ground barley as an offering to find out if she is guilty. No olive oil or incense is to be put on that offering.
16 The priest will lead the woman to my altar and make her stand there.
17 He will then pour sacred water into a clay jar and stir in some dust from the floor of the sacred tent.
18-22 Next, he will remove her veil, then hand her the barley offering, and say, “If you have been faithful to your husband, this water won't harm you. But if you have been unfaithful, it will bring down the Lord's curse—you will never be able to give birth to a child, and everyone will curse your name.”Then the woman will answer, “If I am guilty, let it happen just as you say.”
23 The priest will write these curses on special paper and wash them off into the bitter water,
24 so that when the woman drinks this water, the curses will enter her body.