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Numbers 19:4 KJV
Numbers · chapter 19 · verse 4
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:Numbers 19:4 · King James Version
Numbers 19:4 in context
2This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
3And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
4And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
5And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
6And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- congregationmôwʻêdproperly, an appointmentH4150 →
- tabernacleʼôhela tentH168 →
- sprinklenâzâhto spirtH5137 →
- directlynôkachproperly, the front partH5227 →
- EleazarʼElʻâzârElazar, the name of seven IsraelitesH499 →
- priestkôhênliterally one officiating, a priestH3548 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-10