Discovery BoxLeviticus 11:12 
Context11:12 Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.
Leviticus 11:38
Context11:38 but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
Leviticus 14:5
Context14:5 The priest will then command that one bird be slaughtered 1 into a clay vessel over fresh water. 2
Leviticus 15:5
Context15:5 Anyone who touches his bed 3 must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 4
Leviticus 15:16
Context15:16 “‘When a man has a seminal emission, 5 he must bathe his whole body in water 6 and be unclean until evening,
Leviticus 15:21-22
Context15:21 Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 15:22 Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
1 tn Heb “And the priest shall command and he shall slaughter.” See the note on “be taken up” (v. 4).
2 tn Heb “into a vessel of clay over living water.” The expression “living [i.e., ‘fresh’] water” (cf. Lev 14:50; 15:13; Num 19:17) refers to water that flows. It includes such water sources as artesian wells (Gen 26:19; Song of Songs 4:15), springs (Jer 2:13, as opposed to cisterns; cf. 17:13), and flowing streams (Zech 14:8). In other words, this is water that has not stood stagnant as, for example, in a sealed-off cistern.
sn Although there are those who argue that the water and the blood rites are separate (e.g., E. S. Gerstenberger, Leviticus [OTL], 175-76), it is usually agreed that v. 5b refers to the slaughtering of the bird in such a way that its blood runs into the bowl, which contained fresh water (see, e.g., N. H. Snaith, Leviticus and Numbers [NCBC], 74; G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 208; J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:836-38; cf. esp. Lev 14:51b, “and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the fresh water”). This mixture of blood and water was then to be sprinkled on the person being cleansed from the disease.
3 tn Heb “And a man who touches in his bed”; NLT “touch the man’s bedding.”
4 tn Heb “he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening” (cf. also vv. 6-8, 10-11, etc.).
5 tn Heb “And a man when a lying of seed goes out from him”; KJV, ASV “any man’s seed of copulation”; NIV, NRSV, TEV, NLT “an emission of semen.”
6 tn Heb “and he shall bathe all his flesh in water.”
