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“‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
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Verse 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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