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Numbers 5:23

And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

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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 causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

24And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water 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 17:14And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

2 Chronicles 34:24Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

Psalms 51:1Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember your sins.

Jeremiah 51:60So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

1 Corinthians 16:21The salutation of me Paul with mine 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 →

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