Numbers 19:7

“Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe. After doing that, he may return to the camp. But he will be unfit for doing any sacred work until that evening.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

In Context

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.

8The man who burns the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe, and he will also be unacceptable to me until that evening.

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:25Anyone who picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes and not touch other people until that evening.

Leviticus 11:28Anyone who picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes and not touch other people until that evening, because touching their carcasses ◄defiles you/causes you to become unacceptable to me►.

Leviticus 11:32When one of those creatures dies and falls on something, the thing that it falls on, whatever it is used for, will become ◄defiled/unacceptable to me►, whether it is made of wood or cloth or the hide of some animal or from rough cloth. You must put it in water. Then you must not use it until that evening.

Leviticus 11:40Anyone who eats some meat from that carcass must wash his clothes, and then he must not touch anyone until that evening.

Leviticus 15:5Anyone who touches that person’s bed must wash his clothes and bathe, and no one should touch him until that evening.

Leviticus 16:28The man who burns those things must then wash his clothes and bathe before he returns to 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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