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Numbers 19:4 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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 19:4
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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.
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.
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.
5 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.
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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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 19:5
"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."
Numbers 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."
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