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Numbers 19:14 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" 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. "
Numbers 19:14
Verse in Context
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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.
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
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.
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Numbers 19:1
"And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,"
Numbers 19:2
"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:"
Numbers 19:3
"And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before"
Numbers 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:"
Numbers 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:"
Numbers 19:6
"And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer."
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