Bible Verses About Women

then the cohen is to make the woman swear with an oath that includes a curse; the cohen will say to the woman, ". . .may ADONAI make you an object of cursing and condemnation among your people by making your private parts shrivel and your abdomen swell up!

May this water that causes the curse go into your inner parts and make your abdomen swell and your private parts shrivel up!"- and the woman is to respond, "Amen! Amen!"

The cohen is to write these curses on a scroll, wash them off into the water of embitterment

and make the woman drink the water of embitterment and cursing - the water of cursing will enter her and become bitter.

Then the cohen is to remove the grain offering for jealousy from the woman's hand, wave the grain offering before ADONAI and bring it to the altar.

The cohen is to take a handful of the grain offering as its reminder portion and make it go up in smoke on the altar; afterwards, he is to make the woman drink the water.

When he has made her drink the water, then, if she is unclean and has been unfaithful to her husband, the water that causes the curse will enter her and become bitter, so that her abdomen swells and her private parts shrivel up; and the woman will become an object of cursing among her people.

But if the woman is not unclean but clean, then she will be innocent and will have children.

This is the law for jealousy: when either a wife under her husband's authority goes astray and becomes unclean,

or the spirit of jealousy comes over a husband and he becomes jealous of his wife, then he is to place the woman before ADONAI, and the cohen is to deal with her in accordance with all of this law.

The husband will be clear of guilt, but the wife will bear the consequences of her guilt.'"

"When a woman makes a vow to ADONAI, formally obligating herself, while she is a minor living in her father's house;

then, if her father has heard what she vowed or obligated herself to do and holds his peace, then all her vows remain binding - every obligation she has bound herself to will stand.

But if on the day her father hears it, he expresses his disapproval, then none of her vows or obligations she has bound herself to will stand; and ADONAI will forgive her, because her father expressed his disapproval.

"If, having made vows or rashly committed herself to an obligation, she gets married;

and her husband hears but holds his peace with her on the day he learns of it, then her vows and obligations she has bound herself to will stand.

But if her husband expresses his disapproval on the day he hears it, he will void the vow which is on her and the obligation to which she has bound herself; and ADONAI will forgive her.

"The vow of a widow, however, or of a divorcee, including everything to which she has obligated herself, will stand against her.

"If a woman vowed in her husband's house or obligated herself with an

and her husband heard it but held his peace with her and did not express disapproval, then all her vows and obligations will stand.

But if her husband makes them null and void on the day he hears them, then whatever she said, vows or binding obligation, will not stand; her husband has voided them; and ADONAI will forgive her.

Her husband may let every vow and every binding obligation stand, or he may void it.

But if her husband entirely holds his peace with her day after day, then he confirms all her vows and obligations; he must let them stand, because he held his peace with her on the day he heard them.

If he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he will bear the consequent guilt."

These are the laws which ADONAI ordered Moshe between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, if she is a minor living in her father's house.