Numbers 5:23
The priest must write these curses on a scroll, and then he must wash away the written curses into the bitter water.
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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
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Cross References
Exodus 17:14Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this in a book and read it in Joshua's hearing, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the skies.”
2 Chronicles 34:24'This is what Yahweh says: See, I am about to bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants, all the curses that have been written in the book that they have read before the king of Judah.
Psalms 51:1Have mercy on me, God, because of your covenant faithfulness; 1 for the sake of the multitude of your merciful actions, blot out my transgressions. 1
Isaiah 43:25I, yes, I, am he who blots out your offenses for my own sake; and I will not call to mind your sins any longer. 1
Jeremiah 51:60For Jeremiah had written in a scroll about all the disaster that was going to come on Babylon—all these words that were written about Babylon.
1 Corinthians 16:21I, Paul, write this 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 →