Numbers 5:22
"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."
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
And this water that causeth the curse,.... Upon the drinking of which the curse follows, if guilty: shall go into thy bowels; and there operate and produce the above effects,
which are repeated again to inject terror: to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot; here ends the form of the oath, which begins Num 5:19 , and the woman shall say, amen, amen; so be it; let it be as pronounced, if I am guilty; which, as Aben Ezra observes, is repeated for the sake of confirmation; though the Jewish writers commonly understand it as respecting various things, the oath and the curse, the thing charged with, and the persons suspected of (x). (x) Misn. ib. sect. 5. Targum Jon. & Jerus. & Jarchi in loc.