“This water that causes curse will enter your innards, to cause the belly to distend and the thigh to collapse; and the woman shall say: Amen, amen” (Numbers 5:22) “This water that causes curse will enter your innards” – I have derived only your innards. From where is it derived that even in each and every limb and each and every hair? The verse states: “Will enter” (Numbers 5:27). “Will enter” – even in each and every limb and each and every hair.
“To cause the belly to distend and the thigh to collapse” – Rabban Gamliel says: From where is it derived that just as the water examines the woman, so it examines the adulterous man? The verse states: “To cause the belly to distend and the thigh to collapse.”72This is in contrast to “causing your thigh to fall and your belly to distend” (Numbers 5:21), which refers to the woman. “And the woman shall say” – but not a mute woman.
“Amen, amen” – amen on the oath, amen on the curse; amen regarding this man,73With respect to whom the husband had warned her. amen regarding another man;74Any other man she may have sinned with. amen in the past, amen in the future; amen that I was not defiled during betrothal, amen that I was not defiled during marriage.