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Good News Translation

Numbers 19:5

The whole animal, including skin, meat, blood, and intestines, is to be burned in the presence of the priest.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Colors;   Types;   Water;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Red Heifer, the;   Types of Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ashes;   Clean and Unclean;   Heifer;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hyssop;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Color, Symbolic Meaning of;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ashes;   Dung;   Heifer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Offal;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Colours;   Dung;   Numbers, Book of;   Red Heifer;   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;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Heifer;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
King James Version
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
Lexham English Bible
The heifer will be burned in his sight; its skin, its meat, and its blood, in addition to its offal, will burn.
English Standard Version
And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.
New Century Version
The whole cow must be burned while he watches; the skin, the meat, the blood, and the intestines must all be burned.
New English Translation
Then the heifer must be burned in his sight—its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.
Amplified Bible
'Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its waste, shall be burned (reduced to ash).
New American Standard Bible
'Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hide, its flesh, and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And cause the kow to be burnt in his sight: with her skinne, and her flesh, and her blood, & her doung shal he burne her.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned.
Contemporary English Version
Then the whole cow, including its skin, meat, blood, and insides must be burned.
Complete Jewish Bible
The heifer is to be burned to ashes before his eyes — its skin, meat, blood and dung is to be burned to ashes.
Darby Translation
And one shall burn the heifer before his eyes; its skin and its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall he burn.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the whole cow must be burned in front of him; the skin, the meat, the blood, and the intestines must all be burned.
George Lamsa Translation
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin and her blood and her flesh, with her dung, shall he burn;
Christian Standard Bible®
The cow is to be burned in his sight. Its hide, flesh, and blood, are to be burned along with its waste.
Literal Translation
And the heifer shall be burned before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood with her dung, shall be burned.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
both hir ?kynne and hir flesh, and hir bloude also with hir donge.
American Standard Version
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
Bible in Basic English
And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And cause the cowe to be burnt in his sight, with her skinne, fleshe, & blood: and the doung of her shal he burne also.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the heifer shall be burnt in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burnt.
King James Version (1611)
And one shall burne the heifer in his sight: her skinne, and her flesh, and her blood, with her doung, shall he burne.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they shall burn her to ashes before him; and her skin and her flesh and her blood, with her dung, shall be consumed.
English Revised Version
and one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
Berean Standard Bible
Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he schal brenne that cow, while alle men sien; and he schal yyue as wel the skyn and fleischis therof as the blood and dung to flawme.
Young's Literal Translation
and [one] hath burnt the cow before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, besides her dung, he doth burn;
Update Bible Version
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, he shall burn:
Webster's Bible Translation
And [one] shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
World English Bible
One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
New King James Version
Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight: its hide, its flesh, its blood, and its offal shall be burned.
New Living Translation
As Eleazar watches, the heifer must be burned—its hide, meat, blood, and dung.
New Life Bible
Then Eleazar will watch the young cow being burned. Its skin, its flesh, its blood and its waste will be burned.
New Revised Standard
Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the heifer shall be burned up before his eyes, - her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung shall be burned up.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And shall burn her in the sight of all delivering up to the fire her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, and her dung.
Revised Standard Version
And the heifer shall be burned in his sight; her skin, her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burned;
THE MESSAGE
"Then under Eleazar's supervision burn the cow, the whole thing—hide, meat, blood, even its dung. The priest then will take a stick of cedar, some sprigs of hyssop, and a piece of scarlet material and throw them on the burning cow. Afterwards the priest must wash his clothes and bathe well with water. He can then come into the camp but he remains ritually unclean until evening. The man who burns the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe with water. He also is unclean until evening.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord commanded Moses and Aaron 2 to give the Israelites the following regulations. Bring to Moses and Aaron a red cow which has no defects and which has never been worked, 3 and they will give it to Eleazar the priest. It is to be taken outside the camp and killed in his presence. 4 Then Eleazar is to take some of its blood and with his finger sprinkle it seven times in the direction of the Tent. 5 The whole animal, including skin, meat, blood, and intestines, is to be burned in the presence of the priest. 6 Then he is to take some cedar wood, a sprig of hyssop, and a red cord and throw them into the fire. 7 After that, he is to wash his clothes and pour water over himself, and then he may enter the camp; but he remains ritually unclean until evening. 8 The one who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and pour water over himself, but he also remains unclean until evening. 9 Then someone who is ritually clean is to collect the ashes of the cow and put them in a ritually clean place outside the camp, where they are to be kept for the Israelite community to use in preparing the water for removing ritual uncleanness. This ritual is performed to remove sin. 10 The one who collected the ashes must wash his clothes, but he remains unclean until evening. This regulation is valid for all time to come, both for the Israelites and for the foreigners living among them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 29:14, Leviticus 4:11, Leviticus 4:12, Leviticus 4:21, Psalms 22:14, Isaiah 53:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:8 - skin

Cross-References

Genesis 19:23
The sun was rising when Lot reached Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
Suddenly the Lord rained burning sulfur on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
Genesis 19:26
But Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:27
Early the next morning Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood in the presence of the Lord .
Leviticus 18:22
No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that.
Leviticus 20:13
If a man has sexual relations with another man, they have done a disgusting thing, and both shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
Judges 19:22
They were enjoying themselves when all of a sudden some sexual perverts from the town surrounded the house and started beating on the door. They said to the old man, "Bring out that man that came home with you! We want to have sex with him!"
Isaiah 1:9
If the Lord Almighty had not let some of the people survive, Jerusalem would have been totally destroyed, just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.
Isaiah 3:9
Their prejudices will be held against them. They sin as openly as the people of Sodom did. They are doomed, and they have brought it on themselves.
Jeremiah 3:3
That is why the rains were held back, and the spring showers did not come. You even look like a prostitute; you have no shame.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And [one] shall burn the heifer in his sight,.... Another priest, as the Targum of Jonathan, Eleazar looking on, as that expresses it; the Jews say g, that when the priest came to the mount of Olives, accompanied by the elders of Israel, before he burnt the cow, he dipped himself in a dipping place there; and the wood being laid there in order, wood of cedar, ash, fir, and fig trees, made in the form of a tower, with holes opened in it (to put in the fire, and that it might burn the quicker), and its aspect being to the west, he bound the cow, and laid her upon the pile, with her head to the south, and her face to the west; and then having slain it, and sprinkled its blood, as before related, he set fire to it by the help of some small wood: the burning of it may signify the dolorous sufferings of Christ, when the wrath of God was poured forth like fire upon him; the same was signified by roasting the passover lamb:

her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn; which may denote the extent of Christ's sufferings, reaching to all parts of his body, skin, flesh, and blood, and the shame and reproach that attended them, signified by dung; as well as how impure and accursed he was accounted when he was made sin for his people, bore their sins and suffered for them, even not in body only, but in his soul also; for his soul as well as his body were made an offering for sin.

g Misn. Parah, c. 3. sect. 7, 8, 9.


 
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