“This is what the Lord says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people – all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah.
Numbers 5:23 - New International Version (Anglicised) ‘ “The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The priest shall then write these curses in a book and shall wash them off into the water of bitterness; American Standard Version (1901) And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness: Common English Bible The priest will write these curses in the scroll and wipe them off into the water of bitterness. Catholic Public Domain Version And the priest shall write these curses in a little book, and then he shall erase them with the very bitter waters, into which he had gathered the curses, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And 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. |
“This is what the Lord says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people – all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah.
(‘Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defence – let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.’
‘I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.
I have swept away your offences like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.’
May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.’ ‘ “Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen. So be it.’
He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,
‘Now write down this song and teach it to the Israelites and make them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them.
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.