charge, &c. This ordeal was provided for in the Laws of Khammurabi, 131, 132. See App-15.
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Numbers 5:21
21 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,b and thy belly to swell;