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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/numbers/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Laws for Purification</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“This is the statute of the law that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place. And they shall be kept for the water for impurity for the congregation of the people of Israel; it is a sin offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute for the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew living">a</a></sup></span> water shall be added in a vessel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And it shall be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Hebrew <i>living</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. 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