Numbers 19:21
This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that sprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every one that shall touch the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening.
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Leviticus 11:25And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead, he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun set.
Leviticus 16:26But he that hath let go the emissary goat, shall wash his clothes, and his body with water, and so shall enter into the camp.
Numbers 19:7And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter into the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening.
Numbers 19:10And when he that carried the ashes of the cow, hath washed his garments, he shall be unclean until the evening. The children of Israel, and the strangers that dwell among them, shall observe this for a holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.
Hebrews 9:10And divers washings, and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.
Hebrews 10:4For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.
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 →