Numbers 19:15 - Exposition

Which hath no covering bound upon it. So the Septuagint ( ὅσα οὐχὶ δεσμὸν καταδέδεται ἐπ αὐτῷ ) , and this is the sense. In the Hebrew פָּתִיל , a string, stands in apposition to חָּמִיד , a covering. If the vessel was open, its contents were polluted by the odour of death.