Numbers 5:17 (BSB)

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

From Numbers 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 5:17

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 5:11-31: We have here the law concerning the solemn trial of a wife whose husband was jealous of her. Observe, I. What was the case supposed: That a man had some reason to suspect his wife to have committed adultery, Num 5:12-14. Here, 1. The sin of adultery is justly represented as an exceedingly sinful sin; it is going aside from God and virtue, and the good way, Pro 2:17.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 5:17: And the priest shall take holy water,.... Out of the laver, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi and Aben Ezra: in an earthen vessel; which held half a log, and that was but a quarter of a pint, or three egg shells; for no more was assigned, to a suspected woman, according to the Misnah (r).
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 5:17: the priest shall take holy water--Water from the laver, which was to be mixed with dust--an emblem of vileness and misery (Gen 3:14; Psa 22:15). in an earthen vessel--This fragile ware was chosen because, after being used, it was broken in pieces (Lev 6:28; Lev 11:33).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 5:17: 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: (h) Which also is called the water of purification of sprinkling, read .