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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Numbers 19 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Numbers 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/18.htm" title="Numbers 18">◄</a> Numbers 19 <a href="../numbers/20.htm" title="Numbers 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/numbers/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Red Heifer</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The LORD told Moses and Aaron, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“This is the ordinance of the law that the LORD commanded that the Israelis be told: They are to bring you a spotless red heifer, without physical defect, that has never been fitted with a yoke. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They are to deliver it to Eleazar the priest, and it is to be brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Eleazar the priest is to take blood from it with his finger and sprinkle the blood in front of the Tent of Meeting. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The entire heifer is to be incinerated in his presence, including its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its dung. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the priest is to take some cedar<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:6 i.e. a genus of coniferous evergreen in the family Pinaceae; and so throughout the book">a</a></span> wood, hyssop, and scarlet material and throw it into the middle of the burning heifer. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The priest is to wash his clothes and bathe himself<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:7 Lit. bathe his flesh">b</a></span> with water, after which he may enter the camp, but he is to remain unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Whoever takes part in the burning is to wash his clothes and bathe himself<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:8 Lit. bathe his flesh">c</a></span> in water and is to remain unclean until the evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then someone<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:9 Lit. man">d</a></span> who is unclean is to gather the ashes of the heifer and lay them outside the camp in a clean place. This is to be done for the community of Israel to use for water of purification from sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Whoever gathers the ashes of the heifer is to wash his clothes and is to remain unclean until the evening. This ordinance is to remain for the benefit of both the Israelis and the resident aliens who live among them.”</p> <p class="heading">Purification for Contact with the Dead</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Whoever comes in contact with the body of a dead person is to remain unclean for seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He is to purify himself on the third day and he will be clean on the seventh day. But if he can’t purify himself on the third day then he can’t be clean on the seventh day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Anyone who comes in contact with a dead person (that is, with the corpse<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:13 Lit. soul">e</a></span> of a human being<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:13 Lit. a man">f</a></span> who has died), but who does not purify himself, defiles the LORD’s tent. That person is to be eliminated from Israel, because the water of impurity wasn’t sprinkled on him. He remains unclean and his uncleanness will remain with him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“This is the procedure to follow<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:14 Lit. the law">g</a></span> when a man dies in his tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone in it is to remain unclean for seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Every open vessel that has no covering fastened around it is to be considered unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Whoever is out in an open field and touches the body of<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:16 The Heb. lacks the body of">h</a></span> someone who was killed by a sword, or a dead body, or someone’s bones, or a grave, he is to be considered unclean for seven days.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Now as for the unclean, they are to take ashes from the burning sin offering, and pour running water on it inside a vessel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>A clean person is to take some hyssop, dip it in water, and then sprinkle it on the tent, on every vessel, and on whoever<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:18 Lit. souls">i</a></span> was there (that is, on whoever touched the bones, the killed person, or the dead body, including whoever dug the grave). <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The clean person is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and seventh day and then he is to purify himself on the seventh day, wash his clothes, and bathe with water. He is to be considered clean at evening.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“The person<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:20 Lit. man">j</a></span> who is unclean but who doesn’t purify himself is to be eliminated from contact with the assembly, since he has defiled the LORD’s sanctuary and the water of impurity wasn’t sprinkled on him. He is to be considered unclean <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>as a continuing<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:21 Or eternal">k</a></span> reminder to them. Whoever sprinkles the water of impurity is to wash his clothes, and whoever comes in contact with the water of impurity is to remain unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Furthermore, anything that the unclean person touches is to be considered unclean and the person who touches him is to be considered unclean until the evening.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 19:6 i.e. a genus of coniferous evergreen in the family <i>Pinaceae</i>; and so throughout the book<br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 19:7 Lit. <i>bathe his flesh</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 19:8 Lit. <i>bathe his flesh</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 19:9 Lit. <i>man</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 19:13 Lit. <i>soul</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 19:13 Lit. <i>a man</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 19:14 Lit. <i>the law</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 19:16 The Heb. lacks <i>the body of</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 19:18 Lit. <i>souls</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 19:20 Lit. <i>man</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 19:21 Or <i>eternal</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../numbers/18.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 18"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 18" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/20.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 20"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 20" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/numbers/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>