Numbers 5:17 Cross References - LEB

¹⁷ the priest will take holy waters in a clay vessel, and from the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and the priest will put it into the waters.

¹⁸ "And you will make a basin of bronze and its bronze stand for washing, and you will put it between the tent of assembly and the altar, and you will put water there.

² "This is the decree of the law that Yahweh has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the _⌊Israelites_⌋* and let them take to you a red heifer without a physical defect, on which a yoke _⌊has not been placed_⌋.* ³ And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be brought* out to a place outside the camp, and it will be slaughtered* in his presence. ⁴ Then Eleazar the priest will take some of its blood on his finger and spatter it toward the mouth of the tent of assembly seven times. ⁵ The heifer will be burned* in his sight; its skin, its meat, and its blood, in addition to its offal, will burn. ⁶ The priest will take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson thread, and he will throw them in the midst of _⌊the burning heifer_⌋.* ⁷ The priest will wash his garments and his body in the water, and afterward he will come to the camp; the priest will be unclean until the evening. ⁸ The one who burns it will wash his garments and his body in water; he will be unclean until the evening. ⁹ A clean man will gather the ashes of the heifer, and he will put them in a clean _⌊place outside the camp_⌋;* it will be for the community of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* as a requirement for waters of impurity; it is a purification offering.

¹² Thus* they lifted up their eyes* from afar, but* they did not recognize him, so* they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment* and threw dust on their heads _⌊toward the sky_⌋.*

¹³ O Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all those who forsake you will be put to shame, and those who turn aside from you in the earth will be recorded, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, Yahweh.

²⁹ Let _⌊him put_⌋* his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

⁶ (Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have an occasion* to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write* with his* finger on the ground, taking no notice.*

⁸ And bending down again, he wrote on the ground.