Numbers 19:17

“For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the habitual sin ·missing the mark· offering; and running water shall be poured into a vessel. (LY:2)

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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

16“Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

18A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the utensils, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:19Isaac [Laughter]’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

John 7:38+ 7:38 (38-39) MPr: Implying the Messiah will cause a fountain to miraculously to spring up, just as Moses did in the wilderness (Joel 3:18c in Midrash Eccl 1:9). (Joel 3:18c) Whoever puts his trust in me, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water + 7:38. Quoted from Is 12:3, 44:3; Jer 2:13 will flow from his inmost being!”

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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