What happens to a woman who fails the "Law of Jealousies" test in Numbers 5?


God will make her thigh rot and her belly swell.

Fewer Words Version: God said to Moses, "When the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he suspects that his wife has had sex with another man, he shall bring his wife to the priest. And the priest shall set her before me."

The priest shall say to the woman: "If you’ve had sex with a man who is not your husband, God will cause this water to make your thigh rot and your belly swell."

And the woman shall say, “Amen. Amen.”

Then the priest will make her drink the bitter water that causes the curse.

f she is defiled and has had sex with a man who is not her husband, God will make her belly swell, her thigh will rot, and she will be a curse among her people. (Numbers 5:11-27)

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