Thematic Bible
Numbers 19:1 (show verse)
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
Numbers 19:2 (show verse)
“This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemished red heifer in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never been placed.
Numbers 19:3 (show verse)
You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be brought outside the camp and be slaughtered in his presence.
Numbers 19:4 (show verse)
Next Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
Numbers 19:5 (show verse)
Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned.
Numbers 19:6 (show verse)
The priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet material and cast it into the midst of the burning heifer.
Numbers 19:7 (show verse)
The priest shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward come into the camp, but the priest shall be unclean until evening.
Numbers 19:8 (show verse)
The one who burns it shall also wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
Numbers 19:9 (show verse)
Now a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and the congregation of the sons of Israel shall keep it as water to remove impurity; it is purification from sin.
Numbers 19:10 (show verse)
The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute to the sons of Israel and to the alien who sojourns among them.
Numbers 19:11 (show verse)
‘The one who touches the corpse of any person shall be unclean for seven days.
Numbers 19:12 (show verse)
That one shall purify 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.
Numbers 19:13 (show verse)
Numbers 19:14 (show verse)
‘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.
Numbers 19:15 (show verse)
Every open vessel, which has no covering tied down on it, shall be unclean.
Numbers 19:16 (show verse)
Numbers 19:17 (show verse)
Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt purification from sin and flowing water shall be added to them in a vessel.
Numbers 19:18 (show verse)
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.
Numbers 19:19 (show verse)
Then the clean person shall 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.
Numbers 19:20 (show verse)
‘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 defiled the sanctuary of the Lord; the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean.
Numbers 19:21 (show verse)
So it shall be a perpetual statute for them. And he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.