“ And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean. ”
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...
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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And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
And every open vessel ,.... An earthen one, as the Targum of Jonathan; and so Jarchi interprets it; and Maimonides r observes, that this is only to be understood of an earthen vessel: which hath n...
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...
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...
Every open vessel, because it receives the air of the tent, by which it is ceremonially polluted. Compare Leviticus 11:32,33 .
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Use of the Water
Leviticus 11:32 ; Leviticus 14:36 ; Numbers 31:20