Numbers 19:17

Do this for the unclean person: Take some ashes from the burnt sin offering and mix them in a jar with fresh water.

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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

16Similarly, anyone outside a tent who touches someone who has been killed with a sword, any other dead body, a human bone, or a grave—that person will be unclean for seven days.

18Someone who is clean must then take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the containers inside the tent, on the persons who were there, and on anyone who touched the bone, the one who was killed, the one who died, or the grave.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:19When Isaac's servants dug in the valley, they found there a well of flowing water.

Song of Solomon 4:15You are a garden spring, 1 a well of fresh water, 1 streams flowing down from Lebanon. The woman speaking to the man 1

John 7:38He who believes in me, just as the scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his stomach.”

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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