Num 19:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,
Num 19:2 “This is a law of the Torah which יהוה has commanded, saying,
‘Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, that they bring you a red heifer, a perfect
one, in which there is no blemish and on which a yoke has never come.
Num 19:3 ‘And you shall give it to El‛azar the priest, and he shall bring it
outside the camp, and shall slaughter it before him.
Num 19:4 ‘And El‛azar the priest shall take some of its blood with his
finger, and sprinkle some of its blood seven times toward the front of the Tent
of Meeting.
Num 19:5 ‘And the heifer shall be burned before his eyes – he burns its
hide, and its flesh, and its blood, and its dung.
Num 19:6 ‘And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and
throw them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer.
Num 19:7 ‘The priest shall then wash his garments, and shall bathe his body
in water, and afterward come into the camp, but the priest is unclean until
evening.
Num 19:8 ‘And he who is burning it washes his garments in water, and shall
bathe his body in water, and is unclean until evening.
Num 19:9 ‘And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and shall
place them outside the camp in a clean place. And they shall be kept for the
congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl for the water for uncleanness, it is
for cleansing from sin.
Num 19:10 ‘And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his
garments, and is unclean until evening. And it shall be a law forever to the
children of Yisra’ĕl and to the stranger who sojourns in their midst.
Num 19:11 ‘He who touches the dead of any human being is unclean for
seven days.
Num 19:12 ‘He is to cleanse himself with the water on the third day, and on
the seventh day he is clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third
day, then on the seventh day he is not clean.
Num 19:13 ‘Anyone who touches the dead of a human being, and does not
cleanse himself, defiles the Dwelling Place of יהוה. And that being shall be
cut off from Yisra’ĕl. He is unclean, for the water for uncleanness was not
sprinkled on him, his uncleanness is still upon him.
Num 19:14 ‘This is the Torah when a man dies in a tent: All who come into
the tent and all who are in the tent are unclean for seven days,
Num 19:15 and every open vessel which has no cover fastened on it, is
unclean.
Num 19:16 ‘Anyone in the open field who touches someone slain by a
sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, is unclean for seven
days.
Num 19:17 ‘And for the unclean being they shall take some of the ashes of
the heifer burnt for cleansing from sin, and running water shall be put on them
in a vessel.
Num 19:18 ‘And a clean man shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and
shall sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the beings who
were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or the slain, or the dead, or a
grave.
Num 19:19 ‘And the clean one shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day
and on the seventh day. And on the seventh day he shall cleanse himself, and
shall wash his garments and bathe in water, and shall be clean in the evening.
Num 19:20 ‘But the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that
being shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the
set-apart place of יהוה– water for uncleanness has not been sprinkled on him,
he is unclean.
Num 19:21 ‘And it shall be a law for them forever. And the one who
sprinkles the water for uncleanness washes his garments. And the one who
touches the water for uncleanness is unclean until evening.
Num 19:22 ‘And whatever the unclean being touches is unclean. And the
being who touches it is unclean until evening.’ ”
Bemiḏbar (Numbers) 19
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- Written by: Dr. Correo Andrew Hofstad
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