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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...
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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...
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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...
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WASH. The common rite. See Leviticus 11:25; Leviticus 14:8; Leviticus
14:9, &c.
HIMSELF. his flesh, as in Leviticus 15:
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A second use of the -water of impurity."
Mere presence under the same roof as the dead, without actual contact,
causes defilement....
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_he shall wash his clothes_&c. The defiled person must do this after
having been sprinkled. This is absent from the law in Numbers 19:12....
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DISCOURSE: 165
THE LAW OF PURIFICATION
Numbers 19:17. 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...
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AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY HE SHALL PURIFY HIMSELF— That is, the person
who sprinkled the unclean, as Numbers 19:21.
Such is the law concerning the red heifer, &c. upon which Calmet thus
concludes his obs...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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
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HE SHALL PURIFY HIMSELF, AND WASH... — The rendering should be, _he_
(_i.e.,_ the clean person) _shall purify him_ (_i.e.,_ the unclean
person), and _he_ (the unclean person) _shall wash_......
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וְ הִזָּ֤ה הַ טָּהֹר֙ עַל ־הַ טָּמֵ֔א
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And the clean [person] shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third
day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify
himself, and (l) wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, a...
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See, Reader, in the typical representation of this law, what a
gracious provision is made, for the removal of the uncleanness of our
fallen nature. As the ashes of the heifer pointed to the atonement...
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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...
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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...
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AND THE CLEAN PERSON SHALL SPRINKLE UPON THE UNCLEAN,.... The clean
priest shall sprinkle upon the unclean man, as the Targum of Jonathan;
that is, he shall sprinkle the water of purification upon him...
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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...
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and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day
and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he, the defiled person,
SHALL PURIFY HIMSELF, AND WASH HIS CLOTHES, AND BATHE HIMSE...
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THE USE OF THE WATER...
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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...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
THE ASHES OF AN HEIFER SPRINKLING THE UNCLEAN (Numbers 19:1).
NUMBERS 19:1
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron.
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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...
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1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:2; Ephesians 5:25; Genesis 2:2;...