Numbers 5:22

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Numbers 5:22 (WEB)
and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

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Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 109
““And it came into his bowels like water.”” — editor's note: [It seems to me there is here a reference to the water of jealousy, Numb. v. 22, 23. Compare Acts i. 18. As to oil, generally a blessing, compare Ps. lv. 21;…
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Ephrem the Syrian

Ephrem the Syrian, Three Homilies Homily 1
“From hence was derived that law about women, that they should drink the water of ordeal, that by the mark that came on adulteresses, the congregation might be reminded of its fornication that was in the…” — editor's note: Num. v. 17–27.
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