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


In Context

20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have defiled yourself by sleeping with a man other than your husband"-

21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse of the oath-"may the Lord cause your people to curse and denounce you when he causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell.

22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells and your thigh wastes away. " " 'Then the woman is to say, "Amen. So be it."

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

24 He shall have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water will enter her and cause bitter suffering.

25 The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to 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 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,

The American 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: