Discovery BoxNumbers 18:32 
Context18:32 And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’” 1
Numbers 19:17
Context19:17 “‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take 2 some of the ashes of the heifer 3 burnt for purification from sin and pour 4 fresh running 5 water over them in a vessel.
Numbers 27:3
Context27:3 “Our father died in the wilderness, although 6 he was not part of 7 the company of those that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but he died for his own sin, 8 and he had no sons.
1 tn The final clause could also be rendered “in order that you do not die.” The larger section can also be interpreted differently; rather than take it as a warning, it could be taken as an assurance that when they do all of this they will not be profaning it and so will not die (R. K. Harrison, Numbers [WEC], 253).
2 tn The verb is the perfect tense, third masculine plural, with a vav (ו) consecutive. The verb may be worded as a passive, “ashes must be taken,” but that may be too awkward for this sentence. It may be best to render it with a generic “you” to fit the instruction of the text.
3 tn The word “heifer” is not in the Hebrew text, but it is implied.
4 tn Here too the verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; rather than make this passive, it is here left as a direct instruction to follow the preceding one. For the use of the verb נָתַן (natan) in the sense of “pour,” see S. C. Reif, “A Note on a Neglected Connotation of ntn,” VT 20 (1970): 114-16.
5 tn The expression is literally “living water.” Living water is the fresh, flowing spring water that is clear, life-giving, and not the collected pools of stagnant or dirty water.
6 tn This clause begins with a vav (ו) on a pronoun, marking it out as a disjunctive vav. In this context it fits best to take it as a circumstantial clause introducing concession.
7 tn Heb “in the midst of.”
8 tn The word order is emphatic: “but in/on account of his own sins he died.”
