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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 19:1-10

We have here the divine appointment concerning the solemn burning of a red heifer to ashes, and the preserving of the ashes, that of them might be made, not a beautifying, but a purifying, water, for that was the utmost the law reached to; it offered not to adorn as the gospel does, but to cleanse only. This burning of the heifer, though it was not properly a sacrifice of expiation, being not performed at the altar, yet was typical of the death and sufferings of Christ, by which he intended,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 19:11-22

Directions are here given concerning the use and application of the ashes which were prepared for purification. they were laid up to be laid out; and therefore, though now one place would serve to keep them in, while all Israel lay so closely encamped, yet it is probable that afterwards, when they came to Canaan, some of these ashes were kept in every town, for there would be daily use for them. Observe, I. In what cases there needed a purification with these ashes. No other is mentioned here... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:7

Then the priest shall wash his clothes ,.... The Targum of Jonathan has it,"he that slew the cow,'and Aben Ezra, the priest that burnt it; but it seems to mean Eleazar, the priest that sprinkled the blood, and by touching that was defiled and needed washing; and so the Jews F12 Misn. Parah, c. 4. sect. 4. say, all that were employed about it, from the beginning to the end, were defiled in their garments; not only he that slew it, and burnt it, and sprinkled its blood, but he that took... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:8

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 Numbers 19:7 ; and that this is one distinct from him that sprinkled the blood, Numbers 19:4 , and bathe his flesh in water : in a like quantity, as the above Targum: and shall be unclean until the even : and, though washed, might not go into the camp until that time: this may signify, as before, that though the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:9

And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer ,.... A man, a clean priest, as the Targum of Jonathan; in later times great care was taken that the priest concerned in the burning of the red cow should be pure; he was separated from his own house seven days before the time, and every day he was sprinkled with the blood of all sin offerings then offered, that it might be sure he was free from any pollution by a grave, or a dead body; and for the same reason they made a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:10

And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes ,.... Whom the Targum of Jonathan calls a priest, though it does not seem necessary he should be one: and be unclean until the even ; See Gill on Numbers 19:7 , and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever ; until the Messiah came, whose sufferings and death are for the expiation of, and purification for the sins of Jews and Gentiles, of all... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:11

He that toucheth the dead body of any man ,.... A man and not a beast, as Aben Ezra observes; for he that touched the dead body of a beast was unclean only until evening, Leviticus 11:24 ; any man, Jew or Gentile, as the same writer notes: this is instanced in, as being the principal pollution, though not the only one, yet so some think, for which the water of purification made of the ashes of the burnt heifer was appointed: shall be unclean seven days ; the reason of which is, because... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:9

For a water of separation - That is, the ashes were to be kept, in order to be mixed with water, Numbers 19:17 , and sprinkled on those who had contracted any legal defilement. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:11

He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days - How low does this lay man! He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day, Leviticus 11:24 , Leviticus 11:27 , Leviticus 11:39 ; but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to mark the peculiar impurity of man, and to show his sinfulness - seven times worse than the vilest animal! O thou son of the morning, how art thou fallen! read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:7

Verse 7 7Then the priest shall wash his clothes. At first sight there seems to be a discrepancy in the facts, that the heifer was sacred to God, and pure, and still that the priest was polluted by touching it; yet they accord very well with each other. But that both the priest as well as the minister who made the burning, were unclean until the evening, ought to have forcibly struck the people, and taught them the more to abominate sin. And, since it was not permitted to any but a man that was... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 19:1-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 19:11-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:7

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