Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:19
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 wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
19. he shall wash his clothes &c.] The defiled person must do this after having been sprinkled. This is absent from the law in Num 19:12.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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 that is unclean in any of the above ways:
on the third day, and on the seventh day; [See comments on Nu 19:12],
and on the seventh day he shall purify himself; either the unclean person, who shall perfect his purification, as Jarchi interprets it, that is, by doing what follows; or else the clean person, who becomes in some measure unclean, by sprinkling and touching the water of separation, as appears from Nu 19:21 as the priest that sprinkled the blood of the heifer, and the man that burnt it and gathered its ashes,
Nu 19:7
and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even; in like manner as the man that let go the goat into the wilderness, Le 16:26.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(19) 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 . . .
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Num 19:19. And on the seventh day he shall purify himself That is, the person who sprinkled the unclean, as Num 19:21.
Such is the law concerning the red heifer, &c. upon which Calmet thus concludes his observations.
We have already remarked, by the way, that the sacrifice of the red heifer was a figure of the passion of Jesus Christ. To be more particular, after Saint Austin and Theodoret: the red heifer, according to them, points out the flesh of Christ, which is taken from an earthly substance. This sacrifice is free from spot and imperfection; to denote the infinite sanctity and innocence of our blessed Lord:Its sex specifies the infirmity of the flesh wherewith he was clothed. The red colour figures out his passion. The victim was never to have been under the yoke; to signify the liberty with which Jesus Christ suffered humiliations and death, and the power which he possessed of laying down and resuming life when he would. It is Eleazar, not Aaron, who sacrificeth this heifer: which may represent the abrogation of the priesthood in the family of Aaron, to make room for a new and more excellent priesthood. The red heifer is led out of the camp, and wholly consumed by fire: Jesus Christ dies without Jerusalem, Heb 13:11-12 and as there was nothing but purity in his adorable person, he offered it whole and entire to his Father; and the heifer consumed by fire, delineates the resurrection and ascension of the Saviour.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
wash. The common rite. See Lev 11:25; Lev 14:8, Lev 14:9, &c.
himself = his flesh, as in Lev 15:16
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
shall sprinkle: Eph 5:25-27, Tit 2:14, Tit 3:3-5, 1Jo 1:7, 1Jo 2:1, 1Jo 2:2, Jud 1:23, Rev 1:5, Rev 1:6
on the seventh day he: Num 19:12, Num 31:19, Gen 2:2, Lev 14:9
Reciprocal: Gen 22:4 – third Lev 11:25 – and be unclean Lev 11:40 – shall wash Lev 14:7 – sprinkle Lev 17:15 – both wash Lev 17:16 – General Num 8:7 – wash their Num 8:21 – were purified Num 19:7 – General Num 19:10 – wash his Num 31:24 – General 2Ki 5:10 – seven times Joh 13:10 – He Heb 10:22 – sprinkled
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
19:19 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, and shall be clean at even.
(l) Because he had been among them that were unclean: or else had touched the water as in Num 19:21.