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.
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.