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Numbers 19:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel. "

Numbers 19:17

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15 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

16 “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

17 “For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel.

18 A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.

19 The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

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Leviticus 11:32

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"Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean."

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Leviticus 1:9

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"but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD."

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Hebrews 9:13

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"For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh,"

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Exodus 30:20

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"When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they don’t die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the LORD."

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Numbers 8:7

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"You shall do this to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves."

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Numbers 31:23

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"everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water."

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From This Chapter

Numbers 19:1

"The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,"

Numbers 19:2

"“This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked."

Numbers 19:3

"You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face."

Numbers 19:4

"Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times."

Numbers 19:5

"One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn."

Numbers 19:6

"The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer."

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