And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness:
WEB
And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
YLT
`And the priest hath written these execrations in a book, and hath blotted them out with the bitter waters,
DBT
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the bitter water,
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC