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Numbers 19:11-22

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11 '1The one who touches the corpse of any person * shall be unclean for seven days.
12 'That one shall 2purify himself from uncleanness with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and then he will be clean; but if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.
13 '3Anyone who touches a corpse, the body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself, 4defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not 5sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
14 'This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean for seven days.
15 'Every open vessel, which has no covering tied down on it, shall be unclean.
16 '6Also, anyone who in the open field touches one who has been slain with a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.
17 'Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt 7purification from sin and flowing water shall be added to them in a vessel.
18 'A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there, and on the one who touched the bone or the one slain or the one dying naturally or the grave.
19 'Then the clean person 8shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify him from uncleanness, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and shall be clean by evening.
20 'But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself from uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has 9defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean.
21 'So it shall be a perpetual statute for them. And he 10who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
22 '11Furthermore, anything that the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.' "
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Numbers 19:11-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 19

This chapter contains a law for making a water for purification for sin, the ingredients of which are the ashes of a red heifer burnt, about which many things are observed, Nu 19:1-10; the use of the water made of them, to purify such as were unclean by the touch of a dead body, Nu 19:11-13; some rules are given, by which it might be known who were unclean on account of a dead body, Nu 19:14-16; the manner of purifying such persons, Nu 19:17-19; and the punishment of those that should neglect purification, Nu 19:20-22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

  • 1. Leviticus 21:1, 11; Numbers 5:2; Numbers 6:6; Acts 21:26, 27
  • 2. Numbers 19:19; Numbers 31:19
  • 3. Leviticus 7:21; Leviticus 22:3-7
  • 4. Leviticus 15:31; Leviticus 20:3; Numbers 19:20
  • 5. Numbers 19:19
  • 6. Numbers 31:19
  • 7. Numbers 19:9
  • 8. Ezekiel 36:25; Hebrews 10:22
  • 9. Numbers 19:13
  • 10. Numbers 19:7
  • 11. Leviticus 5:2, 3; Leviticus 7:21; Leviticus 22:5, 6

Footnotes 11

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