^5:17The priest will then take holy water³² in a pottery jar, and take some³³ of the dust³⁴ that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water.

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Footnotes

32 This is probably water taken from the large bronze basin in the courtyard. It is water set apart for sacred service. “Clean water” (so ) does not capture the sense very well, but it does have the support of the Greek that has “pure running water.” That pure water would no doubt be from the bronze basin anyway.
33 Heb “from.” The preposition is used here with a partitive sense.
34 The dust may have come from the sanctuary floor, but it is still dust, and therefore would have all the pollutants in it.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Then the priest is to take holy water in a clay bowl, take some of the dust from the tabernacle floor, and put it in the water.

NLTNew Living Translation

He must take some holy water in a clay jar and pour into it dust he has taken from the Tabernacle floor.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:

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