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One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to
all that touched it, etc., would be to insure early burial, and to
correct a practice not uncommon in the East, of leaving the deal...
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9. THE RED HEIFER AND THE WATER OF PURIFICATION
CHAPTER 19
_ 1. The provision appointed: The red heifer and the ashes (Numbers
19:1)_
2. The use of the water of purification (Numbers 19:11)
This is...
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THE PURIFICATION OF THE UNCLEAN THROUGH CONTACT WITH THE DEAD. This
was effected by sprinkling the unclean person twice within seven days
(Numbers 19:12 _mg._, Numbers 19:19) with running water, the v...
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IS. "it [is]"....
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A second use of the -water of impurity."
Mere presence under the same roof as the dead, without actual contact,
causes defilement....
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H. LAWS OF THE RED HEIFER AND UNCLEANNESS (NUMBERS 19)
TEXT
Numbers 19:1. And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2.
This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded,
sayi...
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_HE THAT TOUCHETH THE DEAD BODY OF ANY MAN SHALL BE UNCLEAN SEVEN
DAYS._
He that toucheth the dead body of any man. This law is noticed here to
show the uses to which the water of separation was appl...
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THE SACRIFICE OF THE RED HEIFER
In order to provide a special means of purification for those who are
defiled by contact with a dead body, a preparation called the 'water
of separation' is made from...
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 19
THE CEREMONY TO MAKE A PERSON *CLEAN – NUMBERS 19:1-10
V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron. V2 He gave a law t...
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וְ כֹל֙ כְּלִ֣י פָת֔וּחַ אֲשֶׁ֛ר אֵין
־צָמִ֥יד פָּתִ֖יל עָלָ֑יו טָמֵ֖א
הֽוּא׃...
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TITHES AND CLEANSINGS
Numbers 18:1; Numbers 19:1
1. DUTIES AND SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY
The statutes of chapter 18, are related to the rebellion of Korah by a
clause in Numbers 18:5, "Ye shall keep...
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PURIFICATION FOR UNCLEANNESS
Numbers 19:1
We might have expected this chapter to occur in Leviticus. Is it not
incongruous in this narrative of the pilgrimage? Nay; this is the most
appropriate plac...
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A most interesting arrangement is here described. It was a provision
for the sacrifice of a red heifer. Instructions were given for the
ceremonial cleansing of the people during the period of their
wi...
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_Cover. Samaritan, "neither chains nor bands." Formerly boxes were
tied down. (Homer, Odyssey viii.) If the covering of any hollow vessel
was off, when a corpse was present, it became unclean. (Calmet...
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We here behold in striking characters the awful effects sin hath
wrought in our nature: the wages of sin is, and must be, death. And
when at any time in our friends, and in our houses, that sentence i...
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The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has
evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise.
It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
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But if, on the one hand, priesthood must lead the people through the
wilderness, and if Moses's rod of authority cannot do this, if it can
only smite; on the other, there must be a provision connected...
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AND EVERY OPEN VESSEL,.... An earthen one, as the Targum of Jonathan;
and so Jarchi interprets it; and Maimonides r observes, that this is
only to be understood of an earthen vessel:
WHICH HATH NO CO...
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1 The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifer.
11 The law for the vse of it in purification of the vncleaue.
1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying,
2 This is the ord...
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THE USE OF THE WATER...
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ORDINANCE OF THE RED HEIFER
(vs.1-22)
This law concerning the offering of the red heifer is unusual in all
of its circumstances, but it is consistent with the character of the
book of Numbers, where...
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11-22 Why did the law make a corpse a defiling thing? Because death
is the wages of sin, which entered into the world by it, and reigns by
the power of it. The law could not conquer death, nor abolis...
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EVERY OPEN VESSEL, because it receives the air of the tent, by which
it is ceremonially polluted. Compare LEVITICUS 11:32,33....
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One of the most important sections of the book of Numbers now lies
open before us, presenting for our consideration the deeply
interesting and instructive ordinance of "The red Heifer." A
thoughtful s...
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Numbers 19:15 open H6605 (H8803) vessel H3627 cover H6781 fastened
H6616 unclean H2931
Numbers 31:20; Leviticus 11:32, Leviticus 14:36...
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THE UNCLEANNESS OF CONTACT WITH DEATH AND ITS REMOVAL (NUMBERS 19:10).
In view of our earlier analysis of the whole chapter the following
section is necessarily chiastic.
a The one who touches the d...
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Numbers 19:1. _And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,_
This ordinance was not given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but in the
wilderness of Paran, after the people had broken their covenant...
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CONTENTS: The ordinance of the red heifer.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Eleazer.
CONCLUSION: The believer needs constant cleansing from defilement
contracted in his pilgrim walk through the world....
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Numbers 19:2. _A red heifer,_ a young and spotless cow, which in the
third year had nearly come to her full growth. The whole body of this
victim was burnt with holy fire from the altar. From her ashe...
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_A red heifer without spot._
THE RED HEIFER
I. It is undoubtedly true that even the true Israelite, the true
believer in Christ, is the subject of daily defilement.
1. Some of our defilement arises...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 19:1__ Human corpses caused the most serious
pollution under the Mosaic system, affecting all who approached them.
Those who have been near or have touched corpses must keep aw...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
“Ordinances respecting purification from the uncleanness of
death.”
The association of death with sin (Genesis 2:17) sufficiently explains
the ideas on which these ordi...
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EXPOSITION
THE ASHES OF AN HEIFER SPRINKLING THE UNCLEAN (Numbers 19:1).
NUMBERS 19:1
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND UNTO AARON. On the addition of the
second name see on Numbers 18:1. There is n...
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And then in chapter nineteen this ordinance of the red heifer. Where
they were to
bring in a red heifer without spot, wherein there is no blemish, upon
which there have never been placed a yoke: And...
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Leviticus 11:32; Leviticus 14:36; Numbers 31:20...