And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
The ordinance
Numbers 31:21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war which went to the battle, …
Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal …
a red heifer. The following curious particulars have been remarked in this ordinance:
Numbers 19:6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and …
Leviticus 14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and …
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, said the LORD: though your …
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first …
no blemish
Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: you …
Leviticus 22:20-25 But whatever has a blemish, that shall you not offer: for it shall …
Malachi 1:13,14 You said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed …
Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Ghost shall come …
Hebrews 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, …
1 Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish …
1 Peter 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
upon which
Deuteronomy 21:3 And it shall be, that the city which is next to the slain man, even …
1 Samuel 6:7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milk cows, on which there …
Lamentations 1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, …
John 10:17,18 Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that …
Philippians 2:6-8 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God…
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
clean
Numbers 19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and …
Numbers 9:13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and declines …
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might …
Hebrews 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, …
Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer …
lay them down
Numbers 19:17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt …
a water of separation. That is, water prepared by being mixed with the ashes of the heifer, and set apart for the special purpose of being sprinkled on those who had contracted any legal defilement. To the rite the apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Hebrews,
Numbers 9:13,14 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and declines …
pointedly alludes: `For if,' says he, `the blood of bulls and or goats.' alluding, probably to the sin-offering and the scape-goat.` and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Sprit, offered himself without spot unto God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.'
Numbers 19:13,20,21 Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies …
Numbers 6:12 And he shall consecrate to the LORD the days of his separation, and …
Numbers 31:23,24 Every thing that may abide the fire, you shall make it go through …
Leviticus 15:20 And every thing that she lies on in her separation shall be unclean: …
Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David …
2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves …
And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
clean
Numbers 19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and …
Numbers 9:13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and declines …
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might …
Hebrews 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, …
Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer …
lay them up
Numbers 19:17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt …
a water of separation. That is, water prepared by being mixed with the ashes of the heifer, and set apart for the special purpose of being sprinkled on those who had contracted any legal defilement. To this rite the apostle Paul, in his epistle to the Hebrews.
Numbers 9:13,14 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and declines …
pointedly alludes: `for if,' says he, `the blood of bulls and or goats,' alluding, probably, to the sin-offerings and the scape-goat,`and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the uncleaned, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Sprit, offered himself without spot unto God,purge your conscience from dead works
Numbers 19:13,20,21 Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies …
Numbers 6:12 And he shall consecrate to the LORD the days of his separation, and …
Numbers 31:23,24 Every thing that may abide the fire, you shall make it go through …
Leviticus 15:20 And every thing that she lies on in her separation shall be unclean: …
Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David …
2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves …
And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
wash his
Numbers 19:7,8,19 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh …
it shall be
Numbers 15:15,16 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also …
Exodus 12:49 One law shall be to him that is home born, and to the stranger that …
Romans 3:29,30 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, …
Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, …
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
toucheth the dead. He who touches a dead beast was only unclean for one day
Leviticus 11:12,27,39 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination …
but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to show the peculiar impurity and sinfulness of man, an the hatefulness of sin, seven times worse than the vilest animal!
Numbers 19:16 And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, …
Numbers 5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every …
Numbers 9:6,10 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of …
Numbers 31:19 And do you abide without the camp seven days: whoever has killed …
Leviticus 11:31 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whoever does touch …
Leviticus 21:1,11 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, …
Lamentations 4:14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted …
Haggai 2:13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any …
Romans 5:12 Why, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; …
2 Corinthians 6:17 Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, …
Ephesians 2:1 And you has he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal …
man. heb. soul of man
He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
he shall purify. Yithchatta, literally, `he shall sin himself,' i.e. not add sin, but take it away, purify. So we say to fleece, and to skin, which do not signify to add a fleece, or a skin, but to take one away.
Numbers 19:17,18 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt …
Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall …
Ezekiel 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: …
Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
Revelation 7:14 And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they …
third day
Numbers 31:19 And do you abide without the camp seven days: whoever has killed …
Exodus 19:11,15 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will …
Leviticus 7:17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day …
Hosea 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise …
1 Corinthians 15:3,4 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, how …
Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
purifieth
Numbers 15:30 But the soul that does ought presumptuously, whether he be born in …
Leviticus 5:3,6,17 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatever uncleanness it be …
Leviticus 15:31 Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; …
Hebrews 2:2,3 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression …
Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, …
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, …
Revelation 22:11,15 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, …
the water
Numbers 19:9,18 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, …
Numbers 8:7 And thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of …
his uncleanness
Leviticus 7:20 But the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, …
Leviticus 22:3 Say to them, Whoever he be of all your seed among your generations, …
Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has …
John 8:24 I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins: for if …
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
ashes. heb. dust
Numbers 19:9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, …
running water shall be put thereto. heb. living waters shall be given.
Genesis 26:19 And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and found there a well of …
Songs 4:15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
John 4:10,11 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and …
John 7:38 He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly …
Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the middle of the throne shall feed them, …
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
shall sprinkle
Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, …
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, …
Titus 3:3-5 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship …
1 John 2:1,2 My little children, these things write I to you, that you sin not. …
Jude 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even …
Revelation 1:5,6 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first …
on the seventh day he
Numbers 19:12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh …
Numbers 31:19 And do you abide without the camp seven days: whoever has killed …
Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and …
Leviticus 14:9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair …
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
