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Numbers Chapter 19

Ashes of the red heifer

19:1 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
19:2 This [is] the ordinance of the law which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, that they bring ya’ll a red heifer without spot, wherein [is] no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke
19:3 And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her outside the camp, and [one] shall kill her before his face
19:4 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
19:5 And [one] shall burn the heifer in his sight ; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn
19:6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast [it] into the middle of the burning of the heifer.
19:7 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 evening.
19:8 And he that burned her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
19:9 And a man [that is] clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay [them] up outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel for a water of separation it [is] a purification for sin.
19:10 And he that gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening and it shall be to the sons of Israel, and to the stranger that lives among them, for a statute forever.
19:11 He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

Teachings for the use of the water of separation


19:12 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.
19:13 Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies not himself, defiled the tabernacle of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel because the water of separation was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean ; his uncleanness [is] yet on him.
19:14 This [is] the law, when a man dies in a tent all that come into the tent, and all that [is] in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
19:15 And every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, [is] unclean.
19:16 And whomever touches 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.
19:17 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 to it in a vessel
19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip [it] in the water, and sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and on all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and on him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave
19:19 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.
19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
the water of separation has not been sprinkled upon him; he [is] unclean.
19:21 And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, that he that sprinkled the water of separation shall wash his clothes ; and he that touches the water of separation shall be unclean until evening.
19:22 And what ever the unclean [person] touches shall be unclean ; and the soul that touches [it] shall be unclean until evening.

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