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


In Context

20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:|

21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, |Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

22 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.| The woman shall say, |Amen, Amen.|

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

24 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

25 The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, 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 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 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: