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Numbers 19:21

This is a permanent rule for everyone. The man who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and anyone who touches the water of purification will be unclean until the evening.

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.

In Context

20But if you don't purify yourself, you will be expelled from the Israelites, because you have made the Tabernacle of the Lord unclean. The water of purification hasn't been sprinkled on you, and you remain unclean.

22Anything the unclean person touches will be unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until the evening.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:25and if you pick up one of their dead bodies you must wash your clothes, and you will be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 16:26The man who went and sent away the scapegoat must wash his clothes and wash himself with water; then he may come back into the camp.

Numbers 19:7Then the priest shall wash his clothes and his body in water, and after that he may enter the camp, but he will remain unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19:10The man who collected the ashes of the cow shall also wash his clothes, and he will remain unclean until the evening. This is a permanent rule for the Israelites and for the foreigner that lives with them.

Hebrews 9:10They're just religious regulations—about food and drink, and various ceremonies involving washing—which were put in place until the time of God's new way of relating to him.

Hebrews 10:4because it's impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to remove sins.

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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