Numbers 5:27

“And when he hath made her to drink the water, etc.] For, as before observed, and here by Jarchi again, if she says I will not drink it, after the roll is blotted out, they oblige her, and make her drink it whether she will or not, unless she says I am defiled: then it shall come to pass, [that] if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband; or has committed adultery: that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter; the water drank by her, and having the curses scraped into it, shall enter into her, and operate and produce bitter and dreadful effects: and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot; not through any natural virtue in the…”

“The trial of jealousy. Since the crime of adultery is especially defiling and destructive of the very foundations of social order, the whole subject is dealt with at a length proportionate to its importance. The process prescribed has lately been strikingly illustrated from an Egyptian “romance,” which refers to the time of Rameses the Great, and may therefore well serve to illustrate the manners and customs of the Mosaic times. This mode of trial, like several other ordinances, was adopted by Moses from existing and probably very ancient and widely spread institutions. Numbers 5:15 The offering was to be of the cheapest and coarsest kind, barley (compare 2 Kings 7:1, 2 Kings 7:16, 2 Kings…”

“if she be defiled: Num 5:20; Pro 5:4-11; Ecc 7:26; Rom 6:21; Co2 2:16; Heb 10:26-30; Pe2 2:10 the woman: Deu 28:37; Psa 83:9-11; Isa 65:15; Jer 24:9, Jer 29:18, Jer 29:22, Jer 42:18; Zac 8:13 Numbers 5:28”