Numbers 19:5,6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

One shall burn the heifer in his sight This typified the extreme sufferings of our Lord, both in soul and body, as a sacrifice made by fire. Cedar-wood, hyssop, and scarlet These were used in the cleansing of lepers, (Leviticus 14:6-7,) and were all here burned, and, as it were, offered to God, that they might be sanctified to this holy use in future.

Numbers 19:5-6

5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.