Laws for Purification

Numbers 19

1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 "This is the 1 ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying: 'Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without 2 blemish, in which there is no a defect b and on which a yoke has never come. 3 'You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it c outside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him; 4 'and Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and d sprinkle some of its blood seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of meeting. 5 'Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight: e its hide, its flesh, its blood, and its offal shall be burned. 6 'And the priest shall take f cedar wood and g hyssop and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer. 7 h 'Then the priest shall wash his clothes, he shall bathe in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp; the priest shall be unclean until evening. 8 'And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening. 9 'Then a man who is clean shall gather up i the ashes of the heifer, and store them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel j for the water of 3 purification; it is for purifying from sin. 10 'And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. It shall be a statute forever to the children of Israel and to the stranger who dwells among them.

11 k 'He who touches the dead 4 body of anyone shall be unclean seven days. 12 l 'He shall purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; 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. 13 'Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and m does not purify himself, n defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because o the water of purification was not sprinkled on him; p his uncleanness is still on him.

14 'This is the law when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days; 15 'and every q open vessel, which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean. 16 r 'Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 17 'And for an unclean person they shall take some of the s ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and 5 running water shall be put on them in a vessel. 18 'A clean person shall take t hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave. 19 'The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; u and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; and at evening he shall be clean.

20 'But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has v defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. 21 'It shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of purification shall be unclean until evening. 22 w 'Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and x the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.' "

  1. Cross References
    Leviticus 22:20 - 25
    Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it shall not be acceptable on your behalf.
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 21:3
    And it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man will take a heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke.
    1 Samuel 6:7
    Now therefore, make a new cart, take two milk cows which have never been yoked, and hitch the cows to the cart; and take their calves home, away from them.
  3. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:12
    The whole bull he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.
    Leviticus 4:21
    Then he shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is a sin offering for the assembly.
    Numbers 19:9
    Then a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and store them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for the water of purification; it is for purifying from sin.
    Hebrews 13:11
    For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
  4. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:6
    The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.
    Hebrews 9:13
    For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 29:14
    But the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its offal, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
    Leviticus 4:11
    But the bull's hide and all its flesh, with its head and legs, its entrails and offal -
    Leviticus 4:12
    The whole bull he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.
    Leviticus 9:11
    The flesh and the hide he burned with fire outside the camp.
  6. Cross References
    Leviticus 14:4
    Then the priest shall command to take for him who is to be cleansed two living and clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
    Leviticus 14:6
    As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.
    Leviticus 14:49
    And he shall take, to cleanse the house, two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 12:22
    And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.
    1 Kings 4:33
    Also he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree of Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.
  8. Cross References
    Leviticus 11:25
    Whoever carries part of the carcass of any of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening:
    Leviticus 15:5
    And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
    Leviticus 16:26
    And he who released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
    Leviticus 16:28
    Then he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
  9. Cross References
    Hebrews 9:13
    For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh.
    Hebrews 9:14
    How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  10. Cross References
    Numbers 19:13
    Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him; his uncleanness is still on him.
    Numbers 19:20
    But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
    Numbers 19:21
    It shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of purification shall be unclean until evening.
  11. Cross References
    Leviticus 21:1
    And the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the pries...
    Leviticus 21:11
    Nor shall he go near any dead body, nor defile ...
    Numbers 5:2
    Command the children of Israel that they put ou...
    Numbers 6:6
    All the days that he separates himself to the L...
    Numbers 9:6
    Now there were certain men who were defiled by ...
    Numbers 9:10
    Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'If an...
    Numbers 31:19
    And as for you, remain outside the camp seven d...
    Lamentations 4:14
    They wandered blind in the streets; They have d...
    Haggai 2:13
    And Haggai said, "If one who is unclean because...
  12. Cross References
    Numbers 19:19
    The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; and at evening he shall be clean.
    Numbers 31:19
    And as for you, remain outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.
  13. Cross References
    Leviticus 22:3 - 7
    Say to them: 'Whoever of all your descendants throughout your generations, who goes near the holy things which the children of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from My presence: I am the LORD.
  14. Cross References
    Leviticus 15:31
    Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they defile My tabernacle that is among them.
  15. Cross References
    Numbers 8:7
    Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purification on them, and let them shave all their body, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
    Numbers 19:9
    Then a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and store them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for the water of purification; it is for purifying from sin.
  16. Cross References
    Leviticus 7:20
    But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, while he is unclean, that person shall be cut off from his people.
    Leviticus 22:3
    Say to them: 'Whoever of all your descendants throughout your generations, who goes near the holy things which the children of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from My presence: I am the LORD.
  17. Cross References
    Leviticus 11:32
    Anything on which any of them falls, when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is any item of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatever item it is, in which any work is done, it must be put in water. And it shall be unclean until evening; then it shall be clean.
    Numbers 31:20
    "Purify every garment, everything made of leather, everything woven of goats' hair, and everything made of wood."
  18. Cross References
    Numbers 19:11
    He who touches the dead body of anyone shall be unclean seven days.
    Numbers 31:19
    And as for you, remain outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.
  19. Cross References
    Numbers 19:9
    Then a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and store them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for the water of purification; it is for purifying from sin.
  20. Cross References
    Psalms 51:7
    Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
  21. Cross References
    Leviticus 14:9
    But on the seventh day he shall shave all the hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows - all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes and wash his body in water, and he shall be clean.
  22. Cross References
    Numbers 19:13
    Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him; his uncleanness is still on him.
  23. Cross References
    Haggai 2:11 - 13
    Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Now, ask the priests concerning the law, saying.
  24. Cross References
    Leviticus 15:5
    And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
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