Numbers 19
KJ3 Literal Translation — Chapter 19 of 36
Chapter Summary
The ordinance of the red heifer is given for ceremonial purification. The heifer is burned outside the camp with cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet. Its ashes are mixed with water for the cleansing of those defiled by contact with the dead.
Key Hebrew Words
People & Context
God who gives the statute of the red heifer and its water of purification for the defiled.
Priest who receives the heifer, sprinkles its blood toward the tabernacle, and oversees its burning.
Prophet to whom Jehovah speaks the ordinance of purification.
High priest to whom Jehovah also speaks the statute of the law concerning the red heifer.
Timeline
God established a statute requiring an unblemished red heifer to be slaughtered and completely burned outside the camp 49 . Cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet were thrown into the fire, and the ashes were preserved for the water of impurity 50 .
Numbers 19:1-10Anyone who touched a human corpse or a grave was deemed unclean for seven days 51 . A clean person had to sprinkle them with the water of impurity on the third and seventh days; failure to purify oneself resulted in being cut off from Israel 53 .
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