Numbers 19:21

This will be an ongoing law concerning these situations. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity must wash his clothes. The one who touches the water for impurity will become unclean until evening.

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In The King James Version

And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.

In Context

20But anyone who remains unclean, who refuses to purify himself—that person will be cut off from the community, because he has defiled Yahweh's sanctuary. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he remains unclean.

22Whatever the unclean person touches will become unclean. The person who touches it will become unclean until evening.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:25Whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes and remain unclean until evening.

Leviticus 16:26The man who let the scapegoat go free must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that, he may come back into the camp.

Numbers 19:7Then he must wash his clothes and bathe in water. Then he may come into the camp, where he will remain unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19:10The one who gathered the heifer's ashes must wash his clothes. He will remain unclean until the evening. This will be a permanent law for the people of Israel and the foreigners who stay with them.

Hebrews 9:10They are only concerned with food and drink and various ceremonial washings, regulations for the body until the time of the new order.

Hebrews 10:4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

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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