Numbers 19:3

and you have given it to Eleazar the priest, and he has brought it out to the outside of the camp, and has slaughtered it before him.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:

In Context

2“This [is] a statute of the law which YHWH has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and they bring a red cow to you, a perfect one, in which there is no blemish, on which no yoke has gone up;

4And Eleazar the priest has taken of its blood with his finger, and has sprinkled [it] toward the front of the face of the Tent of Meeting from its blood seven times;

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:12he has even brought out the whole bullock to the outside of the camp, to a clean place, to the place of the pouring out of the ashes, and he has burned it on the wood with fire; it is burned beside the place of the pouring out of the ashes.

Leviticus 13:45As for the leper in whom [is] the plague, his garments are torn, and his head is uncovered, and he covers over the upper lip, and he calls, Unclean! Unclean!

Leviticus 24:14“Bring out the reviler to the outside of the camp; and all those hearing have laid their hands on his head, and all the congregation has stoned him.

Numbers 5:2“Command the sons of Israel, and they send out of the camp every leper, and everyone with discharging, and everyone defiled by a body;

Hebrews 13:11for of those beasts whose blood is brought for sin into the holy places through the chief priest—of these the bodies are burned outside the camp.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 19:2-11

The Ashes of Purification. ( b. c. 1471.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke: 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and… Read the whole commentary →

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