Numbers 5:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And the priest shall take holy water [probably from the sacred laver] in an earthen vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it in the water.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ The priest will take holy water in a clay jar, and taking dust from the floor of the dwelling, the priest will place it in the water.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And he shall take up holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth from the pavement of the tabernacle into it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel: and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.

Numbers 5:17 Cross References

Job 2:12

And when they saw him from afar, they did not recognize him; and they raised their voices and wept; and they rent their robes and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Exodus 30:18

“You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it,

Jeremiah 17:13

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake thee shall be put to shame; those who turn away from thee shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.

Lamentations 3:29

let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;

Numbers 5:16

“And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord;

Numbers 5:18

And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and unbind the hair of the woman's head, and place in her hands the cereal offering of remembrance, which is the cereal offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.

John 8:6

This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

John 8:8

And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.