The Hebrew and Greek that is translated with “clothes” or similar in English is translated in Enlhet as “crawling-in-stuff” (source: Jacob Loewen in The Bible Translator 1971, p. 169ff. ) and in Noongar as bwoka or “Kangaroo skin” (source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang).
Translation commentary on Numbers 19:8
He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water: See verse 7. The man who burned the cow must make himself ritually clean in the same way as the priest. This verse begins with the Hebrew waw conjunction (literally “And”). Revised Standard Version omits it, but Good News Translation renders it “also,” which is a helpful model.
And shall be unclean until evening: See verse 7.
Quoted with permission from de Regt, Lénart J. and Wendland, Ernst R. A Handbook on Numbers. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .
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