Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Numbers 19:1
CHAPTER XIX
The ordinance of the red heifer, 1, 2.
She shall be slain by Eleazar without the camp, and her blood
sprinkled before the tabernacle, 3, 4.
Her whole body and appurtenance shall be reduced to ashes, and
while burning, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop, shall be thrown
into the fire, 5, 6.
The priest, and he that burns her, to bathe themselves, and be
reputed unclean till the evening, 7, 8.
Her ashes to be laid up for a water of purification, 9.
How, and in what cases it is to be applied, 10-13.
The law concerning him who dies in a tent, or who is killed in
the open field, 14-16.
How the persons, tent, and vessels are to be purified by the
application of these ashes, 17-19.
The unclean person who does not apply them, to be cut off from
the congregation, 20.
This is to be a perpetual statute, 21, 22.
NOTES ON CHAP. XIX