Numbers 19:8

8 ¹The one who burns the heifer ²shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening.

Numbers 19:8 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 19:8

And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water
In forty seahs of water, as the Targum of Jonathan: this shows that one different from this is designed in ( Numbers 19:7 ) ; and that this is one distinct from him that sprinkled the blood, ( Numbers 19:4 Numbers 19:5 ) ;

and bathe his flesh in water:
in a like quantity, as the above Targum:

and shall be unclean until the even:
and, though washed, might not go into the camp until that time: this may signify, as before, that though the crucifixion of Christ was a very great sin, and done by wicked hands, yet was pardonable through the very blood that was shed by them, ( Acts 2:23 Acts 2:36 Acts 2:38 Acts 2:41 ) .

Numbers 19:8 In-Context

6 And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.

7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening.

8 The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening.

9 And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place. And they shall be kept for the water for impurity for the congregation of the people of Israel; it is a sin offering.

10 And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute for the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.

Cross References

• 1. ver. 5
• 2. [See ver. 7 above]