Numbers 5:23
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
In context
21 and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.
22 May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
23 And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
24 He is to have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause her bitter suffering.
25 The priest shall take from her hand the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.
Numbers 5:23 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
- KJV King James Version
- And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
- WEB World English Bible
- “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness:
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'And the priest hath written these execrations in a book, and hath blotted [them] out with the bitter waters,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the bitter water,
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: