Leviticus 14:5

Literal Standard Version

And the priest has commanded, and he has slaughtered one bird on an earthen vessel, over running 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.

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.

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

¹And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying, ²"This is a law of the leper, in the day of his cleansing, that he has been brought to the priest, ³and the priest has gone out to the outside of the camp, and the priest has seen, and behold, the plague of leprosy has ceased from the leper, ⁴and the priest has commanded, and he has taken for him who is to be cleansed, two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. ⁵And the priest has commanded, and he has slaughtered one bird on an earthen vessel, over running water;⁶[as for] the living bird, he takes it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and has dipped them and the living bird in the blood of the slaughtered bird, over the running water, ⁷and he has sprinkled on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and has pronounced him clean, and has sent out the living bird over the face of the field. ⁸And he who is to be cleansed has washed his garments, and has shaved all his hair, and has bathed with water, and has been clean, and afterward he comes into the camp, and has dwelt at the outside of his tent [for] seven days. ⁹And it has been, on the seventh day—he shaves all his hair, his head, and his beard, and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shaves, and he has washed his garments, and has bathed his flesh with water, and has been 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
And the Valley of Siddim [is] full of bitumen-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah flee, and fall there, and those left have fled to the mountain.

Genesis 14:11
And they take the whole substance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole of their food, and go away;

Genesis 14:20
and blessed [is] God Most High, who has delivered your adversaries into your hand"; and he gives to him a tenth of all.

Genesis 14:23
from a thread even to a shoe-strap I do not take of anything which you have, that you do not say, I have made Abram rich;

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

Deuteronomy 1:4
after his striking Sihon king of the Amorite who is dwelling in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan who is dwelling in Ashtaroth in Edrei.

Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Bashan had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead [is] a bedstead of iron. Is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? Its length [is] nine cubits and its breadth [is] four cubits, by the cubit of a man.

Deuteronomy 3:20
until YHWH gives rest to your brothers like yourselves, and they also have possessed the land which your God YHWH is giving to them beyond the Jordan; then you have each turned back to his possession which I have given to you.

Deuteronomy 3:22
do not fear them, for your God YHWH—He is fighting for you.

Joshua 12:4
And the border of Og king of Bashan (of the remnant of the Rephaim), who is dwelling in Ashtaroth and in 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.