Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 5:23

23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book , and he shall blot them out with the bitter water .

Wherewith she cursed her self, to which peradventure her name was added.

(i. e.) In a scroll of parchment, which the Hebrews commonly call a book, as Deut. 24. 1. 2 Sam. 11. 14. Isa. 39. 1.

Or, rase or serape them out and cast them into the bitter water. Whereby it was signified, that if she was innocent, the curses should be blotted out and come to nothing, and, if she were guilty, she should find in her the effects of this water which she drunk, after the words of this curse had been scraped and put in.