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Numbers 5:23

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5:23“ ‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.50

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  1. 50 The words written on the scroll were written with a combination of ingredients mixed into an ink. The idea is probably that they would have been washed or flaked off into the water, so that she drank the words of the curse—it became a part of her being.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

NLTNew Living Translation

And the priest will write these curses on a piece of leather and wash them off into the bitter water.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“ ‘And the priests will write these curses on the scroll, and he will wipe them off into the waters of the bitterness.

KJV 1900King James Version

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