^10 (A)‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.

²² and may this water that causes the curse ^(A)go into your stomach, and make your belly swell and your thigh rot.”

‘^(B)Then the woman shall say, “Amen, so be it.”

²³ ‘Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall scrape them off into the bitter water. ²⁴ And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her to become bitter. ^25 (C)Then the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, shall ^(D)wave the offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar; ²⁶ and the priest shall take a handful of the offering, ^(E)as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water. ²⁷ When he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, that the water that brings a ^(F)curse will enter her and become bitter, and her belly will swell, her thigh will rot, and the woman ^(G)will become a curse among her people.

³⁸ And I will judge you as ^(A)women who break wedlock or ^(B)shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy.

Adultery in the Heart

²⁷ “You have heard that it was said ^[a]to those of old, ^(A)‘You shall not commit adultery.’

²⁸ But I say to you that whoever ^(A)looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.