23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:


In Context

20 But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you be defiled, and some man have lain with you beside your husband:

21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD does make your thigh to rot, and your belly to swell;

22 And 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.

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

24 And 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.

25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it on the altar:

Numbers 5:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot [them] out with the bitter water:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:23" 'The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the curses,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the bitter water,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:23|'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:23And the priest hath written these execrations in a book, and hath blotted them out with the bitter waters,