Numbers 5:23

“‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

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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:

In Context

22and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “ Amen, Amen ·So be it, So be it·.”

24He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

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Cross References

Exodus 17:14Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua [Yah Salvation]: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek [Man who licks up] from under the sky.”

Psalms 51:1Have gracious pity on me, God, according to your chesed ·loving-kindness·. 2 According to the multitude of your tender rachamim ·merciful loves·, blot out my rebellious breaches of relationships. 1

Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your rebellious breaches of relationships for my own sake; 2 and I will not remember your habitual sins ·missing the marks·. 1

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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