Numbers 5:23
And the priest has written these execrations in a scroll, and has blotted [them] out with the bitter waters,
Literal Standard Version
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 17:14And YHWH says to Moses, “Write this, a memorial in a Scroll, and set [it] in the ears of Joshua, that I utterly wipe away the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens”;
2 Chronicles 34:24Thus said YHWH: Behold, I am bringing in calamity on this place and on its inhabitants, all the execrations that are written on the scroll that they read before the king of Judah,
Psalms 51:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID, IN THE COMING OF NATHAN THE PROPHET TO HIM WHEN HE HAS GONE IN TO BATHSHEBA. Favor me, O God, according to Your kindness, || According to the abundance of Your mercies, || Blot out my transgressions.
Isaiah 43:25I [am] He who is blotting out Your transgressions for My own sake, || And I do not remember your sins.
Jeremiah 51:60and Jeremiah writes all the calamity that comes to Babylon on one scroll—all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
1 Corinthians 16:21The salutation of [me], Paul, with my 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 →