Discovery BoxLeviticus 6:28 
Context6:28 Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel 1 must be rubbed out and rinsed in water.
Leviticus 14:50
Context14:50 and he is to slaughter one bird into a clay vessel over fresh water. 2
Leviticus 11:33
Context11:33 As for any clay vessel they fall into, 3 everything in it 4 will become unclean and you must break it.
Leviticus 14:5
Context14:5 The priest will then command that one bird be slaughtered 5 into a clay vessel over fresh water. 6
Leviticus 11:34
Context11:34 Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water 7 will become unclean. Anything drinkable 8 in any such vessel will become unclean. 9
Leviticus 15:12
Context15:12 A clay vessel 10 which the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed in water.
Leviticus 11:32
Context11:32 Also, anything they fall on 11 when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water 12 and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.
1 tn Heb “it”; the words “that vessel” are supplied in the translation to clarify the referent.
2 tn See the note on v. 5 above.
3 tn Heb “And any earthenware vessel which shall fall from them into its midst.”
4 tn Heb “all which is in its midst.”
5 tn Heb “And the priest shall command and he shall slaughter.” See the note on “be taken up” (v. 4).
6 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.
7 tn Heb “which water comes on it.”
8 tn Heb “any drink which may be drunk”; NASB “any liquid which may be drunk”; NLT “any beverage that is in such an unclean container.”
9 tn This half of the verse assumes that the unclean carcass has fallen into the food or drink (cf. v. 33 and also vv. 35-38).
10 tn The Hebrew term כְּלִי (kÿli) can mean “vessel” (v. 12a) or “utensil, implement, article” (v. 12b). An article of clay would refer to a vessel or container of some sort, while one made of wood would refer to some kind of tool or instrument.
11 tn Heb “And all which it shall fall on it from them.”
12 tn Heb “in water it shall be brought.”
