New Revised Standard Version
the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

Contemporary English Version
He will then pour sacred water into a clay jar and stir in some dust from the floor of the sacred tent.

New American Bible
In an earthen vessel he shall take holy water, as well as some dust from the floor of the tabernacle and put it in the water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.

And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.

holy water.

Numbers 19:2-9 This is the observance of the victim, which the Lord hath ordained. Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee a red cow of full age, in which there is no blemish, and which hath not carried the yoke: . . .

Exodus 30:18 Thou shalt make also a brazen laver with its foot to wash in: and thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar. And water being put into it:

of the dust

Job 2:12 And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Jeremiah 17:13 O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.

Lamentations 3:29 Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

John 8:6,8 And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground. . . .