Numbers 19:14 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Numbers 19:14

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.

13 Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and ^adoes not purify himself, ^bdefiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because ^cthe water of purification was not sprinkled on him; ^dhis uncleanness is still on him.

14 ‘This is the law when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days;

15 and every ^aopen vessel, which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean.

16 ^aWhoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

17 ‘And for an unclean person they shall take some of the ^aashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and¹ running water shall be put on them in a vessel.

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

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Numbers 19:11-22

He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean—This law is noticed here to show the uses to which the water of separation [Numbers 19:9] was applied. The case of a death is one; and as in every family which sustained a bereavement the members of the household became defiled, so in an immense population, where instances of mortality and other cases of uncleanness would be daily occurring, the water of separation must have been in constant requisition. To afford the necessary supply of the cleansing mixture, the Jewish writers say that a red heifer was sacrificed every year, and that the ashes, mingled with the sprinkling ingredients, were distributed through all the cities and towns of Israel.

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