and they shall testify,‘ Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed.

祷告说：‘我们的手未曾流这人的血；我们的眼也未曾看见这事。

声明说：‘我们的手未曾流这人的血；我们的眼也未曾看见这事。

声明说：‘我们的手未曾流这人的血；我们的眼也未曾看见这事。

然后祷告说，‘我们的手没有杀这人，我们的眼也没有看见谁杀了他。

他们要声明，说：‘我们的手未曾流过这人的血，我们的眼也未曾看见这事。

禱告說：『我們的手未曾流這人的血；我們的眼也未曾看見這事。

聲明說：『我們的手未曾流這人的血；我們的眼也未曾看見這事。

聲明說：『我們的手未曾流這人的血；我們的眼也未曾看見這事。

然後禱告說，『我們的手沒有殺這人，我們的眼也沒有看見誰殺了他。

他們要聲明，說：‘我們的手未曾流過這人的血，我們的眼也未曾看見這事。

他們要應聲申明說：「這血我們的手未曾使它流過，我們的眼也未曾看見過。

曰、我手未流此血、我目亦未之見、

稱曰、此人非我所殺、其死非我所見、

禱曰、我手未流此人之血、我目亦未見之、

and they shall declare:“ Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.

They’ll say to the Lord,“ We didn’t kill that person. We didn’t see it happen.

Then they must say,‘ Our hands did not shed this person’s blood, nor did we see it happen.

They will declare,‘ Our hands did not shed this blood; our eyes did not see it.

and they shall respond and say,‘ Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see who did.

Then they shall answer and say,‘ Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.

and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

They will declare,‘ Our hands did not shed this blood; our eyes did not see it.

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen[ it].

Then they must proclaim,“ Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we witnessed the crime.

They shall answer and say,“ Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

The Lord has avenged on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood.”

O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”

Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying,‘ If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,then’( let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman)‘ the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh fall away and your body swell.May this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your womb swell and your thigh fall away.’ And the woman shall say,‘ Amen, Amen.’“ Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the grain offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar.And the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.

For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure,