Leviticus 14:5

Bible in Basic English

And the priest will give orders for one of the birds to be put to death in a vessel made of earth, over flowing water.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

King James Version
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

Lexham English Bible
Then the priest shall command someone to slaughter one bird over fresh water in a clay vessel.

New Century Version
"The priest must order one bird to be killed in a clay bowl containing fresh water.

New English Translation
The priest will then command that one bird be slaughtered into a clay vessel over fresh water.

Amplified Bible
"Next the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed [as a sacrifice] in an earthenware container over [fresh] running water.

New American Standard Bible
"The priest shall also give orders to slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over running water.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Priest shall commaunde to kill one of the birdes ouer pure water in an earthen vessell.

Legacy Standard Bible
The priest shall also give a command to slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over running water.

Contemporary English Version
The priest will have someone kill one of the birds over a clay pot of spring water.

Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen is to order one of the birds slaughtered in a clay pot over running water.

Darby Translation
And the priest shall command that one bird be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the priest must order one bird to be killed in a clay bowl over running water.

English Standard Version
And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water.

George Lamsa Translation
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water;

Good News Translation
Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water.

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the priest will order that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.

Literal Translation
And the priest shall command, and he shall kill the one bird on an earthen vessel, over running water;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and shall commaunde the one byrde to be kylled in an earthen vessell ouer sprynginge water.

American Standard Version
and the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the priest shall commaunde that one of the birdes be killed in an earthen vessell, and vpon runnyng water.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

King James Version (1611)
And the Priest shall command that one of the birds bee killed in an earthen vessell, ouer running water.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the priest shall give direction, and they shall kill one bird over an earthen vessel over running water.

English Revised Version
And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:

Berean Standard Bible
Then the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the preest schal comaunde that oon of the sparewes be offrid in `a vessel of erthe,

Young's Literal Translation
`And the priest hath commanded, and he hath slaughtered the one bird upon an earthen vessel, over running water;

Update Bible Version
And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel, over running water.

World English Bible
The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

New King James Version
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water.

New Living Translation
The priest will order that one bird be slaughtered over a clay pot filled with fresh water.

New Life Bible
The religious leader will have one of the birds killed in a clay pot over flowing water.

New Revised Standard
The priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in an earthen vessel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the priest shall give command, and one bird shall be slain, - within an earthen vessel over living water:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall command one of the sparrows to be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters.

Revised Standard Version
and the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The priest shall also give orders to slay the one bird in an earthenware vessel over running water.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² This is the law of the leper on the day when he is made clean: he is to be taken to the priest; ³ And the priest is to go outside the tent-circle; and if, after looking, the priest sees that the mark of the disease has gone from him, ⁴ Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop. ⁵ And the priest will give orders for one of the birds to be put to death in a vessel made of earth, over flowing water. ⁶ And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water. ⁷ And shaking it seven times over the man who is to be made clean, he will say that he is clean and will let the living bird go free into the open country. ⁸ And he who is to be made clean will have his clothing washed and his hair cut and have a bath, and he will be clean. And after that he will come back to the tent-circle; but he is to keep outside his tent for seven days. ⁹ And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes--all his hair is to be cut off--and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

earthen vessel: Leviticus 14:50, Numbers 5:17, 2 Corinthians 4:7, 2 Corinthians 5:1, 2 Corinthians 13:4, Hebrews 2:14

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 36:25 - will I

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

Genesis 14:11
And the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom and Gomorrah and went on their way.

Genesis 14:20
And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.

Genesis 14:23
That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:

Genesis 15:20
And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,

Deuteronomy 1:4
After he had overcome Sihon, king of the Amorites, ruling in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, ruling in Ashtaroth, at Edrei:

Deuteronomy 3:11
(For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)

Deuteronomy 3:20
Till the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you, and till they have taken for themselves the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of Jordan: then you may go back, every man of you, to the heritage which I have given you.

Deuteronomy 3:22
Have no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be fighting for you.

Joshua 12:4
And the land of Og, king of Bashan, of the rest of the Rephaim, who was living at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed,.... That is, shall command another priest to kill one of them, or an Israelite, as Aben Ezra; and who also observes, that some say the leper, or the butcher, as the Targum of Jonathan; the killing of this bird, not being a sacrifice, might be done without the camp, as it was, and not at the altar, near to which sacrifices were slain, and where they were offered: and this was to be done

in an earthen vessel over running water: this vessel, according to the Jewish traditions a, was to be a new one, and a fourth part of a log of running water was to be put into it, and then the bird was to be killed over it, and its blood squeezed into it, and then a hole was dug, and it was buried before the leprous person; and so it should be rendered, "over an earthen vessel", as it is in the Tigurine version, and by Noldius b; for how could it be killed in it, especially when water was in it? the killing of this bird may have respect to the sufferings, death, and bloodshed of Christ, which were necessary for the purging and cleansing of leprous sinners, and which were endured in his human nature, comparable to an earthen vessel, as an human body sometimes is; see 2 Corinthians 4:7; for he was crucified through weakness, and was put to death in the flesh, 2 Corinthians 13:4; and the running or living water mixed with blood may denote both the sanctification and justification of Christ's people by the water and blood which sprung from his pierced side, and the continual virtue thereof to take away sin, and free from it; or the active and passive obedience of Christ, which both together are the matter of a sinner's justification before God.

a Negaim, c. 14. sect. 1. b Ebr. Concord. part. p. 64. No. 318.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Running water - literally, living water, i. e. water fresh from the spring Genesis 26:19; Numbers 19:17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 14:5. Over running water. — Literally, living, that is, spring water. The meaning appears to be this: Some water (about a quarter of a log, an eggshell and a half full, according to the rabbins) was taken from a spring, and put into a clean earthen vessel, and they killed the bird over this water, that the blood might drop into it; and in this blood and water mixed, they dipped the instrument before described, and sprinkled it seven times upon the person who was to be cleansed. The living or spring water was chosen because it was purer than what was taken from pits or wells, the latter being often in a putrid or corrupt state; for in a ceremony of purifying or cleansing, every thing must be as pure and perfect as possible.