Numbers 5:23

And the priest shall write these maledictions upon a book, and shall wash them out with the bitter waters.

Targum Onkelos

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

22And these waters of cursing shall enter thy inside, to make thy bowels to swell, and thy thigh to become corrupt. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen!

24And he shall make the woman to drink the bitter waters of cursing; and the waters of the curse shall enter into her unto bitterness.

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Cross References

Exodus 17:14And the Lord said to Mosheh: Write this memorial in the Book, and set it before Jehoshua, That blotting, I will blot out the memorial of Amaleq from under the heavens.

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 →

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