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Nu 5:22 Strong Concordance And this water [04325] that causeth the curse [0779] shall go [0935] into thy bowels [04578], to make thy belly [0990] to swell [06638], and thy thigh [03409] to rot [05307]: And the woman [0802] shall say [0559], Amen [0543], amen [0543].
  King James And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
the woman shall say, Amen, Amen--The Israelites were accustomed, instead of formally repeating the words of an oath merely to say, "Amen," a "so be it" to the imprecations it contained. The reduplication of the word was designed as an evidence of the woman's innocence, and a willingness that God would do to her according to her desert.
 
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11 Yea, all Israel [03478] have transgressed [05674] thy law [08451], even by departing [05493], that they might not obey [08085] thy voice [06963]; therefore the curse [0423] is poured [05413] upon us, and the oath [07621] that is written [03789] in the law [08451] of Moses [04872] the servant [05650] of God [0430], because we have sinned [02398] against him.
18 As he clothed [03847] himself with cursing [07045] like as with his garment [04055], so let it come [0935] into his bowels [07130] like water [04325], and like oil [08081] into his bones [06106].
29 For [1063] he that eateth [2068] and [2532] drinketh [4095] unworthily [371], eateth [2068] and [2532] drinketh [4095] damnation [2917] to himself [1438], not [3361] discerning [1252] the Lord's [2962] body [4983].
26 All the souls [05315] that came [0935] with Jacob [03290] into Egypt [04714], which came out [03318] of his loins [03409], besides Jacob's [03290] sons [01121]' wives [0802], all the souls [05315] were threescore [08346] and six [08337];