SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:22
y estas aguas que dan maldición entren en tus entrañas, y hagan henchir tu vientre, y caer tu muslo. Y la mujer dirá: Amén, amén.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 5:22
Verse 22. Thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot] What is meant by these expressions cannot be easily ascertained. ûry lpnl lanpel yarech signifies literally thy thigh to fall. As the thigh, feet, &c., were used among the Hebrews delicately to express the parts which nature conceals, (see Gen. xlvi. 26,) the expression here is probably to be understood in this sense; and the falling down of the thigh here must mean something similar to the prolapsus uteri, or falling down of the womb, which might be a natural effect of the preternatural distension of the abdomen. In 1 Corinthians xi. 29, St. Paul seems to allude to the case of the guilty woman drinking the bitter cursed waters that caused her destruction: He who eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation (krima, condemnation or judgment) to himself; and there is probably a reference to the same thing in Psa. cix. 18, and in Dan. ix. 11. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.] This is the first place where this word occurs in the common form of a concluding wish in prayer. The root ma aman signifies to be steady, true, permanent. And in prayer it signifies let it be so - make it steady - let it be ratified. Some have supposed that it is composed of the initial letters of man ûlm ynda Adonai Melech Neeman, My Lord the faithful King, but this derivation is both far-fetched and unnecessary.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 22. And this water that causeth the curse , etc.] 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 ( Numbers 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 f43 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 11-31 - This law would make the women of Israel watch against giving cause for suspicion. On the other hand, it would hinder the cruel treatment suc suspicions might occasion. It would also hinder the guilty from escaping, and the innocent from coming under just suspicion. When n proof could be brought, the wife was called on to make this solem appeal to a heart-searching God. No woman, if she were guilty, coul say "Amen" to the adjuration, and drink the water after it, unless sh disbelieved the truth of God, or defied his justice. The water i called the bitter water, because it caused the curse. Thus sin is called an evil and a bitter thing. Let all that meddle with forbidde pleasures, know that they will be bitterness in the latter end. From the whole learn, 1. Secret sins are known to God, and sometimes ar strangely brought to light in this life; and that there is a day comin when God will, by Christ, judge the secrets of men according to the gospel, Ro 2:16. 2 In particular, Whoremongers and adulterers God wil surely judge. Though we have not now the waters of jealousy, yet we have God's word, which ought to be as great a terror. Sensual lust will end in bitterness. 3. God will manifest the innocency of the innocent. The same providence is for good to some, and for hurt to others. And it will answer the purposes which God intends __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ובאו 935 המים 4325 המאררים 779 האלה 428 במעיך 4578 לצבות 6638 בטן 990 ולנפל 5307 ירך 3409 ואמרה 559 האשׁה 802 אמן 543 אמן׃ 543
