Numbers 19:5

Translations

Modern

Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.

Traditional

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

Literal

And the heifer shall be burned before his eyes—its hide and its flesh and its blood and its dung shall be burned.

Latin

…comburetque eam cunctis videntibus, tam pelle et carnibus ejus quam sanguine et fimo flammæ traditis.

Original

Hebrew

English

Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.

Notes

Numbers 19:3–5

To protect Aaron’s holy status, Eleazar had to perform the red heifer offering because it caused ceremonial impurity (see Leviticus 21:10–12). The red heifer ceremony differed from the regular sacrifice (compare Leviticus 4:3–12).

Numbers 19:1–10

They made the water for the purification ceremony with ashes of the red heifer (19:9). It might be the same as the water of purification in 8:7 (see also 31:19–24). This ceremony needed the ashes of a red heifer. The color probably represented blood (compare Hebrews 9:13–14).

Numbers 19:1–22

This section explains how ordinary Israelites can become ceremonially clean again after touching a corpse and avoid defiling the Tent of Meeting (see 9:4–12; Leviticus 17:15; 21:1–4, 11–12). God's holiness demands that the place of his presence remains pure and separate from pollution (compare 1 Corinthians 6:9–11, 18–20).

Theme notes and profiles

Clean, Unclean, and Holy

Related verses

Exodus 29:14
But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 4:11–12
But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
Isaiah 53:10
Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
Leviticus 4:21
Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
Psalm 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

Glossary

Biblical Concept of Law Cleanness and Uncleanness, Regulations Concerning Deuteronomy, Book of John the Baptist Numbers, Book of Red Heifer

Topics

Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing The Red Heifer: Entire of, to be Burned Types of Christ: Red Heifer Types of the Saviour: The Red Heifer Water of Separation

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