Leviticus 11:36
Context11:36 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
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 2 into a clay vessel over fresh water. 3
Leviticus 14:50
Context14:50 and he is to slaughter one bird into a clay vessel over fresh water. 4


[11:36] 1 tn Heb “a spring and a cistern collection of water”; NAB, NIV “for collecting water.”
[14:5] 2 tn Heb “And the priest shall command and he shall slaughter.” See the note on “be taken up” (v. 4).
[14:5] 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.