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

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children ... For some are already turned aside after Satan. 1 Timothy 5:14

Trivia: According to 1 Timothy, why are women not allowed to teach or have authority over men?

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.

Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. Numbers 5:20
If thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. Numbers 5:20

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