◄ Numbers 19:7 ►
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Good News Translation
After that, he is to wash his clothes and pour water over himself, and then he may enter the camp; but he remains ritually unclean until evening.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he may come into the camp; but the priest shall remain unclean until evening.

Contemporary English Version
After the ceremony, the priest is to take a bath and wash his clothes. Only then can he go back into the camp, but he remains unclean and unfit for worship until evening.

New American Bible
The priest shall then wash his garments and bathe his body in water, afterward he may enter the camp. The priest remains unclean until the evening.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter into the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter into the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19:8,19 He also that hath burned her, shall wash his garments, and his body, and shall be unclean until the evening. . . .

Leviticus 11:25,40 And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead: he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun set. . . .

Leviticus 14:8,9 And when the man hath washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: and being purified he shall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry without his own tent seven days. . . .

Leviticus 15:5 If any man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 16:26-28 But he that hath let go the emissary goat, shall wash his clothes, and his body with water, and so shall enter into the camp. . . .

Context
The Red Heifer
…6The priest shall also take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet twice dyed, and cast it into the flame, with which the cow is consumed. 7And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter into the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening.8He also that hath burned her, shall wash his garments, and his body, and shall be unclean until the evening.…
Cross References
Hebrews 13:11
For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holies by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp.

Leviticus 14:46
He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be unclean until evening,

Leviticus 16:26
But he that hath let go the emissary goat, shall wash his clothes, and his body with water, and so shall enter into the camp.

Leviticus 16:28
And whosoever burneth them shall wash his clothes, and flesh with water: and so shall enter into the camp.

Leviticus 22:6
Shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat those things that are sanctified. But when he hath washed his flesh with water,

Numbers 19:8
He also that hath burned her, shall wash his garments, and his body, and shall be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19:10
And when he that carried the ashes of the cow, hath washed his garments, he shall be unclean until the evening. The children of Israel, and the strangers that dwell among them, shall observe this for a holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.

Numbers 19:21
This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that sprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every one that shall touch the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19:6
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