Dust — the stuff humanity is formed from and returns to (2:7, 3:19); the same humble material later measures Abram's uncountable offspring (13:16). ⚠ Numbers 19:17 is where it matters most and is most often missed: the remedy for touching a corpse is made from afar srefat ha-chattat, the DUST of the burning — not the efer, the ashes, that v9 gathered eight verses earlier. Two different nouns, and of the ten versions checked on both shelves only the NWT 1984 prints the difference. What cures a man defiled by a human body is the substance a human body is. → first discussed at Gen 2:7