Numbers 19:5

Then, while Eleazar watches, the cow must be burned completely—its hide, its meat, the rest of its blood, and even its dung.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

In Context

4He must dip one of his fingers in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times on the ground near the Sacred Tent.

6Eliezer then must take a stick of cedar wood, a stalk of a plant named hyssop, and some scarlet/red yarn, and throw them into the fire where the cow is burning.

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Cross References

Exodus 29:14But the meat of the young bull and its hide and intestines must be burned outside the camp. That will be an offering to forgive the guilt of your sins.

Leviticus 4:21Then the priest must take the other parts of the bull outside the camp and burn them, like he does when he himself has sinned. That will be the offering for the sin that all the people have committed, and they will be forgiven.

Isaiah 53:10But it will be Yahweh’s will that he be afflicted and caused to suffer. And when he dies, Yahweh will cause him to be an offering to remove the guilt of sinners. But later he will have many spiritual children, and he will live ◄a long time/forever► after he dies and becomes alive again, and he [MTY] will accomplish everything that Yahweh has planned.

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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