Verse 2
Numbers 19:2
New Living Translation
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“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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
זֹ֚את חֻקַּ֣ת הַ/תּוֹרָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה לֵ/אמֹ֑ר דַּבֵּ֣ר אֶל בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וְ/יִקְח֣וּ אֵלֶי/ךָ֩ פָרָ֨ה אֲדֻמָּ֜ה תְּמִימָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֵֽין בָּ/הּ֙ מ֔וּם אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹא עָלָ֥ה עָלֶ֖י/הָ עֹֽל
English Translation
This is the statute of the law which the Lord commanded to say: Speak to the children of Israel and they shall take to you a red heifer, perfect, in which is no blemish, and upon which a yoke has not come.
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Chapter 19 Context
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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
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“Here is another legal requirement commanded by the LORD: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a r...
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Give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence...
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Eleazar will take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of th...
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As Eleazar watches, the heifer must be burned — its hide, meat, blood, and dung.
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Eleazar the priest must then take a stick of cedar, a hyssop branch, and some scarlet yarn and throw...
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“Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water. Afterward he may return to the ca...
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The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he, too, wil...
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Then someone who is ceremonially clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them in a...
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The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will remain ceremo...
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“All those who touch a dead human body will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.
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They must purify themselves on the third and seventh days with the water of purification; then they...
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All those who touch a dead body and do not purify themselves in the proper way defile the LORD’s Tab...
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“This is the ritual law that applies when someone dies inside a tent: All those who enter that tent...
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Any open container in the tent that was not covered with a lid is also defiled.
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And if someone in an open field touches the corpse of someone who was killed with a sword or who die...
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“To remove the defilement, put some of the ashes from the burnt purification offering in a jar, and...
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Then someone who is ceremonially clean must take a hyssop branch and dip it into the water. That per...
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On the third and seventh days the person who is ceremonially clean must sprinkle the water on those...
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“But those who become defiled and do not purify themselves will be cut off from the community, for t...
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This is a permanent law for the people. Those who sprinkle the water of purification must afterward...
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Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be ceremonially unclean until evening.”
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