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Text -- Numbers 19:11-22 (NET)
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Context
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 .
19:17 “‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel .
19:18 Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop , dip it in the water , and sprinkle it on the tent , on all its furnishings , and on the people who were there , or on the one who touched a bone , or one killed , or one who died , or a grave .
19:19 And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day ; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes , and bathe in water , and he will be clean in the evening .
19:20 But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself , that person must be cut off from among the community , because he has polluted the sanctuary of the Lord ; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean .
19:21 “‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes , and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening .
19:22 And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean , and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening .’”
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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 |
UNCLEANNESS |
CLEAN |
CORPSE |
Uncleaess |
Defilement |
HEIFER, RED |
OLIVES, MOUNT OF |
SPRINKLE; SPRINKLING |
Red Heifer |
SEPARATION |
Water of separation |
Water |
Exodus |
Purification |
Sanitation |
Mourning |
BODY |
Grave |
Church |
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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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NET Notes: Num 19:17 The expression is literally “living water.” Living water is the fresh, flowing spring water that is clear, life-giving, and not the collec...
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NET Notes: Num 19:19 The construction uses a simple Piel of חָטָא (khata’, “to purify”) with a pronominal suffix – ...
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