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Numbers 19:17
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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.  
19 The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; aand on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; and at evening he shall be clean.  
20 ‘But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has adefiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.  
21 It shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of purification shall be unclean until evening.
22 aWhatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and bthe person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.’ ” 
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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