Leviticus 11:36

11:36 However, a spring or a cistern which collects water ¹  will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

Leviticus 11:38

11:38 but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

Leviticus 14:5

14:5 The priest will then command that one bird be slaughtered ²  into a clay vessel over fresh water. ³ 

Leviticus 14:50

14:50 and he is to slaughter one bird into a clay vessel over fresh water. ⁴ 

Leviticus 11:34

11:34 Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water ⁵  will become unclean. Anything drinkable ⁶  in any such vessel will become unclean. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “a spring and a cistern collection of water”; NAB, NIV “for collecting water.”

² tn Heb “And the priest shall command and he shall slaughter.” See the note on “be taken up” (v. 4).

³ 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.

³ tn See the note on v. 5 above.

⁴ tn Heb “which water comes on it.”

⁵ 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.”

⁶ 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).