John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 5:26

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, [even] the memorial thereof, etc.] For good or evil, according as her works were, as Aben Ezra observes; a memorial for good, if innocent, and a memorial for evil, if guilty: and burn [it] upon the altar; as the handful of other meat offerings used to be, (<030102>Leviticus 1:2); and afterwards shall cause the woman to drink the water; oblige her to it; having proceeded thus far, and no confession made, namely, an oath taken, the curses of it written in a scroll and scraped into the waters, and the jealousy offering waved and offered.

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