earthen vessell] The liquor that boyled the sin-offering might pierce into an earthen vessell, and therefore it was broken; and the rather, because the losse was not great; but if the pot wherein it was sod, were iron or brasse, it was to be scoured and rinsed: all which might shadow the infection of sinne. water] Which was in the Laver neere unto the Altar, Exodus 30:18.