If a clay pot is used to boil the sacrificial meat, it must then be broken. If a bronze pot is used, it must be scoured and thoroughly rinsed with water.
Parallel translations
- WEB But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
- KJV But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.
- BSB The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.
- NKJV But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water.
- NASB Also the earthenware vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.
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Quick answer
An earthen vessel used to boil it must be broken, while a bronze one is scoured and rinsed. The holiness absorbed in cooking must be carefully contained.
Overview
A porous clay pot that absorbed the offering must be destroyed, but durable bronze need only be cleansed, preventing the holy from being treated as common. These practical rules embody deep reverence for what is set apart to God. They train God's people in a holiness that Christ ultimately secures inwardly, cleansing the conscience itself (Hebrews 9:14).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Lev 11:33Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.
- Lev 15:12“‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
- Heb 9:9–10which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect;
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