Numbers 5:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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 11:11 Isaiah 39:1. Blot them out with the bitter water, or, rase or scourge them out, and cast then 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.