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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" /><title>Numbers 19 NLT</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="../">NLT</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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/numbers/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Water of Purification</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Here is another legal requirement commanded by the LORD: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer, a perfect animal that has no defects and has never been yoked to a plow. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be taken 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>Eleazar will take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tabernacle.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>As Eleazar watches, the heifer must be burned—its hide, meat, blood, and dung. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Eleazar the priest must then take a stick of cedar,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> a hyssop branch, and some scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire where the heifer is burning.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water. Afterward he may return to the camp, though he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he, too, will remain unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then someone who is ceremonially clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them in a purified place outside the camp. They will be kept there for the community of Israel to use in the water for the purification ceremony. This ceremony is performed for the removal of sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent law for the people of Israel and any foreigners who live among them.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“All those who touch a dead human body will be ceremonially unclean for seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They must purify themselves on the third and seventh days with the water of purification; then they will be purified. But if they do not do this on the third and seventh days, they will continue to be unclean even after the seventh day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>All those who touch a dead body and do not purify themselves in the proper way defile the LORD’s Tabernacle, and they will be cut off from the community of Israel. Since the water of purification was not sprinkled on them, their defilement continues.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“This is the ritual law that applies when someone dies inside a tent: All those who enter that tent and those who were inside when the death occurred will be ceremonially unclean for seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Any open container in the tent that was not covered with a lid is also defiled. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And if someone in an open field touches the corpse of someone who was killed with a sword or who died a natural death, or if someone touches a human bone or a grave, that person will be defiled for seven days.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“To remove the defilement, put some of the ashes from the burnt purification offering in a jar, and pour fresh water over them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then someone who is ceremonially clean must take a hyssop branch and dip it into the water. That person must sprinkle the water on the tent, on all the furnishings in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent; also on the person who touched a human bone, or touched someone who was killed or who died naturally, or touched a grave. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>On the third and seventh days the person who is ceremonially clean must sprinkle the water on those who are defiled. Then on the seventh day the people being cleansed must wash their clothes and bathe themselves, and that evening they will be cleansed of their defilement.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“But those who become defiled and do not purify themselves will be cut off from the community, for they have defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Since the water of purification has not been sprinkled on them, they remain defiled. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This is a permanent law for the people. Those who sprinkle the water of purification must afterward wash their clothes, and anyone who then touches the water used for purification will remain defiled until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be ceremonially unclean until evening.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">19:4 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the Tent of Meeting.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">19:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">juniper.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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