Numbers 19:17

and for the unclean person they have taken from the ashes of the burning of the [cow], and he has put running water over it into a vessel;

Literal Standard Version

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

16And everyone on the face of the field who comes against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean [for] seven days;

18and a clean person has taken hyssop, and has dipped [it] in water, and has sprinkled [it] on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who have been there, and on him who is coming against a bone, or against one pierced, or against the dead, or against a grave.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:19And Isaac’s servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water,

Song of Solomon 4:15A fount of gardens, a well of living waters, || And flowings from Lebanon!

John 7:38he who is believing in Me, according as the Writing said, Rivers of living water will flow out of his belly”;

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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