John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 5:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, etc.] The above curses imprecated on herself by an oath; the words and the letters of them were written at length, in a scroll of parchment; and, as some say also, her name, but not her double amen to them f44: and he shall blot [them] out with the bitter water: wash them out with it, and into it, or scrape them off of the parchment into it.

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