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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.
9 Then a man who is clean shall gather up athe 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 bfor the water of 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 a‘He who touches the dead1 body of anyone shall be unclean seven days.  
12 aHe 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.  
Book Notes:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Numbers

NUMBERS. This book is so called because it contains an account of the enumeration and arrangement of the Israelites. The early part of it, from the first through the tenth chapters, appears to be a supplement to Leviticus, being occupied with relating the appointment of the Levites to the sacred offices. The journal of the march through the wilderness is then given as far as Numbers 21:20; after which the early incidents of the invasion are narrated. One direct quotation only from this book (Numbers 16:5) is made in the New Testament (II Timothy 2:19); but indirect references to it by the later sacred writers are very numerous.

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