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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Numbers 5:23

Book. Hebrew sepher, may also denote a board covered with wax, which was used as one of the most ancient modes of writing. (Calmet) --- Josephus says, the priest wrote the name of God on parchment, and washed it out in the bitter waters.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Numbers 5:23. _THE PRIEST SHALL WRITE THESE CURSES - AND HE SHALL BLOT_ THEM _OUT_] It appears that the curses which were written down with a kind of ink prepared for the purpose, as some of th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The trial of jealousy. Since the crime of adultery is especially defiling and destructive of the very foundations of social order, the whole subject is dealt with at a length proportionate to its impo...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. THE SANCTIFICATION OF THE CAMP AND THE NAZARITE CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Concerning the leper, the issue and defilement of the dead (Numbers 5:1)_ 2. Concerning restitution (Numbers 5:5) 3. Concerning th...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    AN ORDEAL IN CASES OF JEALOUSY. A married woman suspected of unfaithfulness is, in the absence of evidence, to be subjected to an ordeal by being made to drink holy water with which dust from the floo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Ordeal of Jealousy. Though in its present form a late priestly composition this section is evidently based upon very ancient material. Its contents find no parallel in the other Pentateuchal code...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a book_ The Heb. term _sçpher_denotes anything which can receive writing, e.g. a strip of parchment. Here it is something from which the written words of the curse can be washed or wiped out into the...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE PRIEST SHALL WRITE THESE CURSES IN A BOOK, &C.— The Jews call every scroll, whereon any thing is written, ספר _sepher,_ a _book;_ and the rabbis tell us, that these maledictions were written upon...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ֠ כָתַב אֶת ־הָ אָלֹ֥ת הָ אֵ֛לֶּה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    3. THE WATER OF JEALOUSY Numbers 5:11. The long and remarkable statute regarding the water of jealousy seems to have been interposed to prevent, by means of an ordeal, that cruel practice of perempto...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These verses contain a very circumstantial account, of the law of jealousy. The process of trial is very solemn and awful; and the event, suited to the nature of the dispensation, under which the chur...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Let us pursue the study of the book. Chapter 5 presents three things, in connection with the purity of the camp, looked at as the dwelling-place of God, and in connection with our pilgrim passage thro...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE PRIEST SHALL WRITE THESE CURSES IN A BOOK,.... 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 so...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot [them] out with the bitter water: Ver. 23. _Shall write these curses in a book._] To show, that the word written should cause the...

  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE TRIAL OF JEALOUSY...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    DEFILEMENT CALLING FOR ISOLATION (vs.1-4) The principle of 1 Corinthians 5:6, "a little leaven leavens the whole lump" was just as true in the Old Testament as in the new. However, the defilement ofN...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-31 This law would make the women of Israel watch against giving cause for suspicion. On the other hand, it would hinder the cruel treatment such suspicions might occasion. It would also hinder the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THESE CURSES, wherewith she cursed herself, to which peradventure her name was added. IN A BOOK, i.e. in a scroll of parchment, which the Hebrews commonly call a _book_, as Deuteronomy 24:1 2 Samuel 1...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    ''And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: both male an...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 5:23 priest H3548 write H3789 (H8804) curses H423 book H5612 scrape H4229 (H8804) bitter H4751 water...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WOMAN IS TO BE MADE TO DRINK OF THE WATER OF TESTING BEFORE YAHWEH (NUMBERS 5:23). Numbers 5:23 ‘And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of b...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Defilement of the camp. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The purity of the church must be as carefully guarded as the order of it and it is for the edification of it that those who are...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 16:21; 1 Corinthians 16:22; 2 Chronicles 34:24; Acts 3:19;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In a book — That is, in a scroll of parchment, which the Hebrews commonly call a book. Blot them out — Or scrape them out and cast them into the bitter water. Whereby it was signified, that if she was...

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