Numbers 5:23
“‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
World English Bible
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
Cross References
Exodus 17:14The LORD said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
2 Chronicles 34:24“The LORD says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.
Psalms 51:1Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Jeremiah 51:60Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
1 Corinthians 16:21This greeting is by me, Paul, 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 →