Numbers 5:23
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the curses,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
In Context
24And he shall give them her to drink. And when she hath drunk them up,
Cross References
Exodus 17:14And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue: for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven.
2 Chronicles 34:24Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring evils upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, and all the curses that are written in this book which they read before the king of Juda.
Psalms 51:1Unto the end, a psalm of David,
Isaiah 43:25I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
Jeremiah 51:60And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon.
1 Corinthians 16:21The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:12-31
The Bitter Water of Jealousy. ( b. c. 1490.) 11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; 14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of… Read the whole commentary →