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Text -- Numbers 19:1-16 (NET)
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The Red Heifer Ritual
19:1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron :
19:2 “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded : ‘Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without blemish , which has no defect and has never carried a yoke .
19:3 You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp , and it must be slaughtered before him.
19:4 Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger , and sprinkle some of the blood seven times directly in front of the tent of meeting .
19:5 Then the heifer must be burned in his sight – its skin , its flesh , its blood , and its offal is to be burned .
19:6 And the priest must take cedar wood , hyssop , and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning .
19:7 Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water , and afterward he may come into the camp , but the priest will be ceremonially unclean until evening .
19:8 The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water . He will be ceremonially unclean until evening .
19:9 “‘Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp . They must be kept for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification – it is a purification for sin .
19:10 The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer must wash his clothes and be ceremonially unclean until evening . This will be a permanent ordinance both for the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them.
Purification from Uncleanness
19:11 “‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days .
19:12 He must purify himself with water on the third day and on the seventh day , and so will be clean . But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day , then he will not be clean .
19:13 Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord . And that person must be cut off from Israel , because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean ; his uncleanness remains on him.
19:14 “‘This is the law : When a man dies in a tent , anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days .
19:15 And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean .
19:16 And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields , or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone , or a grave , will be unclean seven days .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Heifer |
SPRINKLE; SPRINKLING |
CORPSE |
Red Heifer |
HEIFER, RED |
Water of separation |
SEPARATION |
Clean |
OLIVES, MOUNT OF |
Water |
Uncleaess |
Exodus |
UNCLEANNESS |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
Defilement |
Mourning |
Sanitation |
Types |
Purification |
BAPTISM (NON-IMMERSIONIST VIEW) |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Num 19:1; Num 19:2; Num 19:2; Num 19:2; Num 19:2; Num 19:2; Num 19:3; Num 19:4; Num 19:4; Num 19:5; Num 19:5; Num 19:6; Num 19:6; Num 19:7; Num 19:7; Num 19:7; Num 19:8; Num 19:9; Num 19:9; Num 19:9; Num 19:11; Num 19:11; Num 19:11; Num 19:11; Num 19:12; Num 19:13; Num 19:14; Num 19:16; Num 19:16; Num 19:16
NET Notes: Num 19:1 In the last chapter the needs of the priests and Levites were addressed. Now the concern is for the people. This provision from the sacrifice of the r...
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NET Notes: Num 19:3 The clause is a little ambiguous. It reads “and he shall slaughter it before him.” It sounds as if someone else will kill the heifer in th...
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NET Notes: Num 19:4 Seven is a number with religious significance; it is often required in sacrificial ritual for atonement or for purification.
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NET Notes: Num 19:5 The imperfect tense is third masculine singular, and so again the verb is to be made passive.
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NET Notes: Num 19:6 There is no clear explanation available as to why these items were to be burned with the heifer. N. H. Snaith suggests that in accordance with Babylon...
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NET Notes: Num 19:9 The ashes were to be stored somewhere outside the camp to be used in a water portion for cleansing someone who was defiled. This is a ritual that was ...
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NET Notes: Num 19:11 The verb is a perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; it follows only the participle used as the subject, but since the case is hypothetical and...
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NET Notes: Num 19:12 The verb is the Hitpael of חָטָא (khata’), a verb that normally means “to sin.” But the Piel idea in m...
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NET Notes: Num 19:13 It is in passages like this that the view that being “cut off” meant the death penalty is the hardest to support. Would the Law prescribe ...
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NET Notes: Num 19:14 The word order gives the classification and then the condition: “a man, when he dies….”
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