“This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;”
And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman: If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse — the conditional oath (shevuah) invokes blessing if the woman is innocent, creating a mechanism by which divine truth is revealed through swearing.
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