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Numbers 19:2
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Laws of Purification

1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 “This is the1 ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without2 blemish, in which there is no adefect band on which a yoke has never come.  
3 You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it aoutside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him;  
4 and Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and asprinkle some of its blood seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of meeting.  
5 Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight: aits hide, its flesh, its blood, and its offal shall be burned.  
6 And the priest shall take acedar wood and bhyssop and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer.  
7 aThen 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.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Numbers 19:2

THE WATER OF SEPARATION. (Num. 19:1-22)

This is the ordinance of the law—an institution of a peculiar nature ordained by law for the purification of sin, and provided at the public expense because it was for the good of the whole community.

Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, etc.—This is the only case in which the color of the victim is specified. It has been supposed the ordinance was designed in opposition to the superstitious notions of the Egyptians. That people never offered a vow but they sacrificed a red bull, the greatest care being taken by their priests in examining whether it possessed the requisite characteristics, and it was an annual offering to Typhon, their evil being. By the choice, both of the sex and the color, provision was made for eradicating from the minds of the Israelites a favorite Egyptian superstition regarding two objects of their animal worship.


 
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