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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 NET Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">NET Bible</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">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/numbers/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">The Red Heifer Ritual</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> spoke to Moses and Aaron: <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“This is the ordinance of the law which the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> has commanded: ‘Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without blemish, which has no defect and has never carried a yoke. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp, and it must be slaughtered before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times directly in front of the tent of meeting. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the heifer must be burned in his sight – its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and afterward he may come into the camp, but the priest will be ceremonially unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“‘Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification – it is a purification for sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer must wash his clothes and be ceremonially unclean until evening. This will be a permanent ordinance both for the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them.</p> <p class="title">Purification from Uncleanness</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He must purify himself with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“‘This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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