Numbers 5:21 - Exposition

Then the priest shall say unto the woman. These words are parenthetical, just as in Matthew 9:6 . The latter part of the oath is called "an oath of cursing," because it contained the imprecations on the guilty. To rot. Hebrew, "to fall." τὸν μηρόν σου διαπεπτωκότα , , Septuagint. To swell. The Hebrew zabeh is not of quite certain meaning, but probably this.