Numbers 19:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Numbers 19:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 de...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  He shall purify himself (f) 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. (f) With the s...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  third... seventh. Compare the Antitype. Hebrews 9:14 . The numbers significant. See App-10. the . on the.

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• Numbers 19:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. He shall purify him...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  On the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean— See Numbers 19:19 . Hence it appears, that this water of separation was designed chiefly for the purging of that great impurity contract...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 wa...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 fr...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He shall purify himself... — The verse may be rendered thus: He shall purify himself with it on the third day and on the seventh day; so shall he be clean; but if he purify not himself on the th...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  TITHES AND CLEANSINGS Numbers 18:1-32 ; Numbers 19:1-22 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...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Purification for Uncleanness Numbers 19:1-22 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 appropri...

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• Numbers 19:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 w...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Numbers 19:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He shall purify himself with it ,.... That is, with the ashes of the water of purification made of them: and this was to be done first on the third day ; from the time of his touching the dead bod...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He shall purify himself with it With the water of separation. On the third day To typify Christ's resurrection on that day, by which we are cleansed or sanctified.

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• Numbers 19:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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, wh...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  With it, i.e. with the water of separation. On the third day, to typify Christ's resurrection on that day, by which we are cleansed or sanctified. On the seventh day he shall be clean, to teach...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Uncleanness of Contact With Death And Its Removal ( Numbers 19:10-22 ). In view of our earlier analysis of the whole chapter the following section is necessarily chiastic. a The one who touc...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 coven...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 a...

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• Numbers 19:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 a...

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• Numbers 19:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE ASHES OF AN HEIFER SPRINKLING THE UNCLEAN ( Numbers 19:1-4 ). Numbers 19:1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron. On the addition of the second name...

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• Numbers 19:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Use of the Water

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• Numbers 19:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:3 ; 1 Corinthians 15:4 ; Acts 15:9 ; Exodus 19:11 ; Exodus 19:15 ; Ezekiel 36:25 ; Hosea 6:2 ; Leviticus 7:17 ; Numbers 31:19 ; Numbers 19:17 ; Numbers 19:18 ; Psalms 51:...

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• Numbers 19:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  With it — With the water of separation. On the third day — To typify Christ's resurrection on that day by which we are cleansed or sanctified.

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