John Gill Commentary Numbers 5:23

"And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness:" — Numbers 5:23 (ASV)

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 some say also, her name, but not her double amen to them ^F25 : 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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FOOTNOTES:

• F25: Misnah, ut supra, (Sotah, c. 2) sect. 3.