Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath
of
cursing
An oath which has a curse annexed to it, if taken falsely, which
was to be pronounced upon the woman if guilty:
and the priest shall say unto the woman;
pronouncing the imprecation or curse upon her, she having taken
the oath, should she be guilty of the crime suspected of, and she
had swore concerning:
the Lord make thee a curse, and an oath among the
people;
accursed according to the oath taken; or let this be the form of
an oath and imprecation used by the people, saying, if I have
done so and so, let me be accursed as such a woman, or let not
that happen to me, as did to such a woman, so Jarchi:
when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to
swell;
upon drinking the bitter waters; but though these things followed
upon that, yet not as the natural cause of them, for they are
ascribed to the Lord, and to a supernatural and miraculous power
of his, which went along with the drinking of them.
