Bible Commentary

And 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: 17. the sin-offering ] The word is used in the same sense as in Num 19:9. running water ] Water fresh from a running stream. This … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:17”

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 16. or a grave ] The thought of defilement from unwitting contact with a grave underlies our Lord’s denunciation of the Pharisees in … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:16”

And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, [is] unclean. Every open vessel, because it receives the air of the tent, by which it is ceremonially polluted. Compare Lev 11:32,33. Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole 11-22. He that toucheth the deadbody of any man shall be uncleanThis … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:15”

This [is] the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that [is] in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 14 22. A second use of the ‘water of impurity.’ Mere presence under the same roof as the dead, without actual contact, causes defilement. Fuente: The … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:14”

Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness [is] yet upon him. Whosoever toucheth, to wit, if … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:13”

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. 12. therewith ] with the ‘water of impurity.’ It is clear that the writer of Num 19:19 understood … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:12”

He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 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 to be devoured by … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:11”

And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute forever. He that gathered the ashes became equally unclean with the others. For the defilement of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:10”

And a man [that is] clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay [them] up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it [is] a purification for sin. 9. it shall be kept ] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:9”

And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water,…. In forty seahs of water, as the Targum of Jonathan: this shows that one different from this is designed in … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:8”