Numbers 5:23
The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
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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:
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Exodus 17:14The Lord told Moses, “Write all this down on a scroll as a reminder and read it out loud to Joshua, because I'm going to completely wipe out the Amalekites so nobody on earth will remember them.”
2 Chronicles 34:24this is what the Lord says: I am about to bring disaster down on this place and on its people, in accordance with all the curses written in the book that has been read to the king of Judah.
Psalms 51:1God, please be gracious to me, because of your trustworthy love, because of your infinite kindness please wipe away my sins.
Isaiah 43:25I, yes I am the God who wipes out your sins because of who I am, and who doesn't remember your sins any more.
Jeremiah 51:60Jeremiah had written on a scroll a description of all the disasters that would come to Babylon—all these words written here about Babylon.
1 Corinthians 16:21I Paul write this greeting 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 →