George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Numbers 19:16
Grave. The Hebrews buried it at a distance from towns, and set up some mark to apprise all people, that they might not be defiled for seven days. (Calmet)
Grave. The Hebrews buried it at a distance from towns, and set up some mark to apprise all people, that they might not be defiled for seven days. (Calmet)
One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to insure early burial, and to correct a practice not uncommon in the East, of leaving the deal...
9. THE RED HEIFER AND THE WATER OF PURIFICATION CHAPTER 19 _ 1. The provision appointed: The red heifer and the ashes (Numbers 19:1)_ 2. The use of the water of purification (Numbers 19:11) This is...
THE PURIFICATION OF THE UNCLEAN THROUGH CONTACT WITH THE DEAD. This was effected by sprinkling the unclean person twice within seven days (Numbers 19:12 _mg._, Numbers 19:19) with running water, the v...
DEAD BODY. Hebrew. _bemeth,_ no word for body. one dead, as in Numbers 19:18, not Numbers 19:11 and Numbers 19:13....
_or a grave_ The thought of defilement from unwitting contact with a grave underlies our Lord's denunciation of the Pharisees in Luke 11:44....
A second use of the -water of impurity." Mere presence under the same roof as the dead, without actual contact, causes defilement....
SLAIN WITH A SWORD— In chap. Numbers 31:19 this is expressed more generally; _whosoever hath touched any slain_—whether by the sword, or any other instrument....
H. LAWS OF THE RED HEIFER AND UNCLEANNESS (NUMBERS 19) TEXT Numbers 19:1. And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2. This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, sayi...
_HE THAT TOUCHETH THE DEAD BODY OF ANY MAN SHALL BE UNCLEAN SEVEN DAYS._ He that toucheth the dead body of any man. This law is noticed here to show the uses to which the water of separation was appl...
19:16 fields, (a-16) Lit. 'on the face of the fields.'...
THE SACRIFICE OF THE RED HEIFER In order to provide a special means of purification for those who are defiled by contact with a dead body, a preparation called the 'water of separation' is made from t...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 19 THE CEREMONY TO MAKE A PERSON *CLEAN – NUMBERS 19:1-10 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron. V2
וְ כֹ֨ל אֲשֶׁר ־יִגַּ֜ע עַל ־פְּנֵ֣י הַ
TITHES AND CLEANSINGS Numbers 18:1; Numbers 19:1 1. DUTIES AND SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY The statutes of chapter 18, are related to the rebellion of Korah by a clause in Numbers 18:5, "Ye shall keep...
PURIFICATION FOR UNCLEANNESS Numbers 19:1 We might have expected this chapter to occur in Leviticus. Is it not incongruous in this narrative of the pilgrimage? Nay; this is the most appropriate plac...
A most interesting arrangement is here described. It was a provision for the sacrifice of a red heifer. Instructions were given for the ceremonial cleansing of the people during the period of their wi...
We here behold in striking characters the awful effects sin hath wrought in our nature: the wages of sin is, and must be, death. And when at any time in our friends, and in our houses, that sentence i...
The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
But if, on the one hand, priesthood must lead the people through the wilderness, and if Moses's rod of authority cannot do this, if it can only smite; on the other, there must be a provision connected...
AND WHOSOEVER TOUCHETH ONE THAT IS SLAIN WITH A SWORD IN THE OPEN FIELDS,.... That is killed by another, that dies a violent death, either by the sword or other means; one that touched such an one was...
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. Ver. 16. _Shall be unclean seven days._] _See Tr...
_With a sword_ Or by any other violent way. _Running water_ Waters flowing from a spring or river, which are the purest. These manifestly signify God's Spirit, which is oft compared to water, and by w...
1 The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifer. 11 The law for the vse of it in purification of the vncleaue. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying, 2 This is the ord...
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, even for the purpose of burial, OR A DEAD BODY, OR A BONE OF A MAN, OR A GRAVE, SHALL BE UNCLEAN SEVEN DAYS. It was for this r...
THE USE OF THE WATER...
ORDINANCE OF THE RED HEIFER (vs.1-22) This law concerning the offering of the red heifer is unusual in all of its circumstances, but it is consistent with the character of the book of Numbers, where...
11-22 Why did the law make a corpse a defiling thing? Because death is the wages of sin, which entered into the world by it, and reigns by the power of it. The law could not conquer death, nor abolis...
WITH A SWORD, or by any other violent way....
One of the most important sections of the book of Numbers now lies open before us, presenting for our consideration the deeply interesting and instructive ordinance of "The red Heifer." A thoughtful s...
Numbers 19:16 open H6440 field H7704 touches H5060 (H8799) slain H2491 sword H2719 died H4191 ...
THE UNCLEANNESS OF CONTACT WITH DEATH AND ITS REMOVAL (NUMBERS 19:10). In view of our earlier analysis of the whole chapter the following section is necessarily chiastic. a The one who touches the d...
Numbers 19:1. _And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,_ This ordinance was not given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but in the wilderness of Paran, after the people had broken their covenant...
CONTENTS: The ordinance of the red heifer. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Eleazer. CONCLUSION: The believer needs constant cleansing from defilement contracted in his pilgrim walk through the world....
Numbers 19:2. _A red heifer,_ a young and spotless cow, which in the third year had nearly come to her full growth. The whole body of this victim was burnt with holy fire from the altar. From her ashe...
_A red heifer without spot._ THE RED HEIFER I. It is undoubtedly true that even the true Israelite, the true believer in Christ, is the subject of daily defilement. 1. Some of our defilement arises...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 19:1__ Human corpses caused the most serious pollution under the Mosaic system, affecting all who approached them. Those who have been near or have touched corpses must keep aw...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 19:11 The process of the cleansing ash has two phases. Failure to carry out this rite DEFILES THE TABERNACLE, and THAT PERSON SHALL BE CUT OFF (see note on...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES “Ordinances respecting purification from the uncleanness of death.” The association of death with sin (Genesis 2:17) sufficiently explains the ideas on which these ordi...
EXPOSITION THE ASHES OF AN HEIFER SPRINKLING THE UNCLEAN (Numbers 19:1). NUMBERS 19:1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron.
And then in chapter nineteen this ordinance of the red heifer. Where they were to bring in a red heifer without spot, wherein there is no blemish, upon which there have never been placed a yoke: And t...
Ezekiel 39:11; Luke 11:44; Matthew 23:27; Numbers 19:11; Numbers 3
With a sword — Or by any other violent way....