Add parallel Print Page Options

22 and this water that causes the curse will go[a] into your stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.”[b] Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.”[c]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:22 tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. It could be taken as a jussive following the words of the priest in the previous section, but it is more likely to be a simple future.
  2. Numbers 5:22 tn Heb “fall away.”
  3. Numbers 5:22 tn The word “amen” carries the idea of “so be it,” or “truly.” The woman who submits to this test is willing to have the test demonstrate the examination of God.