Numbers 19:17

And they shall take some of the ashes from the burning and the sin offering, and they shall pour living waters over them into a vessel.

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In The King James Version

And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

In Context

16If anyone in the field will have touched the corpse of a man, who was killed or who died on his own, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean for seven days.

18And into it a man who is clean shall dip hyssop, and he shall sprinkle from it the entire tent, and all its articles, and the men who were polluted by means of contact.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:19And they dug in the torrent, and they found living water.

Song of Solomon 4:15The fountain of the gardens is a well of living waters, which flow forcefully from Lebanon.

John 7:38whoever believes in me, just as Scripture says, ‘From his chest shall flow rivers of living water.’”

Matthew Henry on Numbers 19:12-22

11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. 13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord ; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his… Read the whole commentary →

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