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holy water.

That is, water from the laver; called holy, because separated from common to sacred uses.

This is the most ancient account of the trial by ordeal, which obtained so generally among various nations; and it was calculated to fortify the minds of the Israelitish women in the hour of temptation, and to render them watchful against all occasions of exciting suspicion in the breasts of their husbands.

Num 19:2-9; Exod 30:18

of the dust.

Job 2:12; Jer 17:13; Lam 3:29; John 8:6; John 8:8