Numbers 5:23

‘Then the priest must write with ink on a small scroll these ◄curses/bad things that will happen to her if she is guilty► and then wash the ink off into the bitter water.

Translation for Translators

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

24The priest must take from her the offering of barley flour that she is holding, and lift it up to dedicate it to me. Then he must put it on the altar

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Cross References

Exodus 17:14Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Write an account of this battle, and then read it to Joshua. Also write that some day I will completely get rid of the Amalek people-group.”

2 Chronicles 34:24that this is what Yahweh says: “Listen to this carefully. I am going to cause a disaster to strike Jerusalem and all the people who live here. I will cause them to experience the curses that were written in the scroll that was read to the king of Judah.

Psalms 51:1O God, be merciful to me, because you love me faithfully; because you are very merciful, erase the record of the ways that I disobeyed you!

Isaiah 43:25I am the one who is able to forgive you for all your sins; I am the only one who can do that, with the result that I will never think about them again.

Jeremiah 51:60Jeremiah had written on a scroll a list of all the disasters that he had written about, disasters that would soon occur in Babylon.

1 Corinthians 16:21Now I, Paul, having taken the pen from the hand of my secretary, write with my own hand to say that I am thinking fondly of you/to give you my greetings. I do this to show you that this letter really comes from me.

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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