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Numbers 19:3

Give that cow to Eleazar, and he will take it outside the camp and kill it there.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Types;   Water;   Thompson Chain Reference - Association-Separation;   Separation;   Without the Camp;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Red Heifer, the;   Types of Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ashes;   Clean and Unclean;   Heifer;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Eleazar;   Hyssop;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Color, Symbolic Meaning of;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Heifer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Colours;   Numbers, Book of;   Red Heifer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Entry into Jerusalem;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Atonement;   Heifer, Red;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Red heifer;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ashes;   Clean and unclean;   Covenant;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Heifer;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heifer, Red;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;   Law, Reading from the;   Red Heifer;   Sacrifice;   Solomon;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall give her to El`azar the Kohen, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face:
King James Version
And 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:
Lexham English Bible
And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be brought out to a place outside the camp, and it will be slaughtered in his presence.
New Century Version
Give the cow to Eleazar the priest; he will take it outside the camp and kill it.
New English Translation
You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp, and it must be slaughtered before him.
Amplified Bible
'You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be brought outside the camp and be slaughtered in his presence.
New American Standard Bible
'And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be brought outside the camp and be slaughtered in his presence.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And ye shal giue her vnto Eleazar ye Priest, that hee may bring her without the hoste, and cause her to be slaine before his face.
Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be brought outside the camp and be slaughtered in his presence.
Contemporary English Version
Moses will give it to Eleazar the priest, then it will be led outside the camp and killed while Eleazar watches.
Complete Jewish Bible
You are to give it to El‘azar the cohen; it is to be brought outside the camp and slaughtered in front of him.
Darby Translation
and ye shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp, and one shall slaughter it before him.
English Standard Version
And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him.
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth outside the camp, and one shall slaughter her in his sight;
Good News Translation
and they will give it to Eleazar the priest. It is to be taken outside the camp and killed in his presence.
Christian Standard Bible®
Give it to the priest Eleazar, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
Literal Translation
And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and she shall be brought forth outside the camp; and she shall be slaughtered before his face.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and ye shal geue her vnto Eleasar the prest, which shall brynge her without the hooste, and cause her to be slayne there before him.
American Standard Version
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
Bible in Basic English
Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And ye shall geue her vnto Eleazar the priest, that he may bryng her without the hoast, and cause her to be slayne before his face:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and she shall be brought forth without the camp, and she shall be slain before his face.
King James Version (1611)
And ye shall giue her vnto Eleazar the Priest, that hee may bring her forth without the campe, and one shall slay her before his face.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt give her to Eleazar the priest; and they shall bring her out of the camp into a clean place, and shall kill her before his face.
English Revised Version
and ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
Berean Standard Bible
Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye schulen bitake hir to Eleazar, preest, which schal offre `the cow, led out of the tentis, in the siyt of alle men.
Young's Literal Translation
and ye have given it unto Eleazar the priest, and he hath brought it out unto the outside of the camp, and hath slaughtered it before him.
Update Bible Version
And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and [one] shall slay her before his face:
World English Bible
You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face:
New King James Version
You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it outside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him;
New Living Translation
Give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
New Life Bible
You will give it to Eleazar the religious leader. It will be brought away from the tents and killed in front of him.
New Revised Standard
You shall give it to the priest Eleazar, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall ye give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall take her forth unto the outside of the camp, and she shall be slain before him;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall deliver her to Eleazar the priest, who shall bring her forth without the camp, and shall immolate her in the sight of all:
Revised Standard Version
And you shall give her to Elea'zar the priest, and she shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be brought outside the camp and be slaughtered in his presence.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said, 2 "These are the laws from the teachings that the Lord gave to the Israelites. Get a red cow that has nothing wrong with it. That cow must not have any bruises. And it must never have worn a yoke. 3 Give that cow to Eleazar, and he will take it outside the camp and kill it there. 4 Then Eleazar the priest must put some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle some of the blood toward the Holy Tent. He must do this seven times. 5 Then the whole cow must be burned in front of him; the skin, the meat, the blood, and the intestines must all be burned. 6 Then the priest must take a cedar stick, a hyssop branch, and some red string. He must throw these things into the fire where the cow is burning. 7 Then the priest must wash himself and his clothes with water. Then he must come back into the camp. He will be unclean until evening. 8 The man who burns that cow must wash himself and his clothes in water. He will be unclean until evening. 9 "Then someone who is clean will collect the ashes from the cow and put them in a clean place outside the camp. These ashes will be used when someone must keep a special ceremony to become clean. These ashes will also be used to remove a person's sins. 10 "The man who collected the cow's ashes must wash his clothes. He will be unclean until evening. "This rule will continue forever. This rule is for the citizens of Israel and for the foreigners living with you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

without the camp: Numbers 5:2, Numbers 15:36, Leviticus 4:12, Leviticus 4:21, Leviticus 13:45, Leviticus 13:46, Leviticus 16:27, Leviticus 24:14, Hebrews 13:11-13

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
Lot went outside and closed the door behind him.
Genesis 19:8
Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man before. I will give my daughters to you. You can do anything you want with them. But please don't do anything to these men. They have come to my house, and I must protect them."
Genesis 19:28
Abraham looked down into the valley toward the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He saw clouds of smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
Genesis 19:29
God destroyed the cities in the valley, but he remembered what Abraham had said. So God sent Lot away from those cities before destroying them.
Genesis 21:8
Isaac continued to grow, and soon he was old enough to begin eating solid food. So Abraham gave a big party.
Exodus 12:15
For this festival you will eat bread made without yeast for seven days. On the first day, you will remove all the yeast from your houses. No one should eat any yeast for the full seven days of this festival. Anyone who eats yeast must be separated from the rest of Israel.
Exodus 12:39
The people did not have time to put yeast in their bread or make any special food for their journey. So they had to bake their bread without yeast.
Judges 6:19
So Gideon went in and cooked a young goat in boiling water. He also took about 20 pounds of flour and made bread without yeast. Then he put the meat into a basket and the broth from the meat into a pot. He brought out the meat, the broth, and the bread without yeast and gave them to the Lord under the oak tree.
1 Samuel 28:24
The woman had a calf that she had been fattening. She quickly killed the calf. She took some flour and pressed it with her hands. Then she baked some bread without yeast.
2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha went to Shunem, where an important woman lived. She asked Elisha to stop and eat at her house. So every time Elisha went through that place, he stopped there to eat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest,.... The son of Aaron; the Sagan of the priests, as the Targum of Jonathan calls him, the second or deputy priest; it was not to be given to Aaron, that he might not be defiled, though but for a small time, that so he might not be hindered in his office at all; but to Eleazar, to inure him to his office, and to confirm him in it:

that he may bring her forth without the camp; without the camp of Israel; Jarchi says, without the three camps, as afterwards without Jerusalem; it used in later times to be burnt on the mount of Olives; it was brought forth as impure, and was a type of Christ, having the sins of his people on him, and who in conformity to this type suffered without the gates of Jerusalem, see Hebrews 13:11;

and [one] shall slay her before his face; the Targum of Jonathan says, another priest; but it was not necessary that it should be slain by a priest, any man might do it. Jarchi says, a stranger slew, and Eleazar looked on; though it was not slain by him, yet it was slain before him, that it might look like a sacrifice, though not offered on the altar; and slaying of it denotes the putting of Christ to death, which was done in the presence, and with the approbation, of the priests and elders of the people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The work would necessarily require a priest; yet as it rendered him unclean for the day Numbers 19:22, the high priest was relieved from performing it.

Without the camp - The defilement was viewed as transferred to the victim that was to be offered for its removal. Under these circumstances the victim, like the defiled persons themselves, would be removed outside the camp. The particular pollution to be remedied by this ordinance was the indirect one resulting from contact with tokens and manifestations of sin, not the direct and personal one arising from actual commission of sin. So too the sinless antitype had to bear the reproach of associating with sinners Luke 5:30; Luke 15:2. And as the red heifer was expelled from the precincts of the camp, so was the Saviour cut off in no small measure during His Life from the fellowship of the chief representatives of the theocracy, and put to death outside Jerusalem between two thieves. Compare Hebrews 13:11-12.


 
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