Discovery BoxNumbers 5:22 
Context5:22 and this water that causes the curse will go 1 into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.” 2 Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.” 3
Numbers 5:26
Context5:26 Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.
Numbers 20:11
Context20:11 Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.
Numbers 21:16
Context21:16 And from there they traveled 4 to Beer; 5 that is the well where the Lord spoke to Moses, “Gather the people and I will give them water.”
Numbers 33:9
Context33:9 They traveled from Marah and came to Elim; in Elim there are twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees, so they camped there.
1 tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. It could be taken as a jussive following the words of the priest in the previous section, but it is more likely to be a simple future.
2 tn Heb “fall away.”
3 tn The word “amen” carries the idea of “so be it,” or “truly.” The woman who submits to this test is willing to have the test demonstrate the examination of God.
4 tn The words “they traveled” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied here because of English style. The same phrase is supplied at the end of v. 18.
5 sn Isa 15:8 mentions a Moabite Beerelim, which Simons suggests is Wadi Ettemed.
