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Literal Standard Version

Numbers 19:8

and he who is burning it washes his garments with water, and has bathed his flesh with water, and is unclean until the evening.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ablution;   Defilement;   Purification;   Water;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Defilement;   Purifications or Baptisms;   Red Heifer, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ashes;   Clean and Unclean;   Heifer;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Color, Symbolic Meaning of;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Heifer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ablutions;   Heifer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Colours;   Numbers, Book of;   Red Heifer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Preparation ;   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 - Ablution;   Baptism (Non-Immersionist View);   Heifer, Red;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ablution;   Hafáą­arah;   Law, Reading from the;   Red Heifer;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
King James Version
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Lexham English Bible
The one who burns it will wash his garments and his body in water; he will be unclean until the evening.
English Standard Version
The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening.
New Century Version
The man who burns the cow must wash himself and his clothes in water; he will be unclean until evening.
New English Translation
The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
Amplified Bible
'The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
New American Standard Bible
'The one who burns the heifer shall also wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and will be unclean until evening.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also he that burneth her, shall wash his clothes in water, and wash his flesh in water, and be vncleane vntill euen.
Legacy Standard Bible
The one who burns it shall also wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening.
Contemporary English Version
The man who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and take a bath, but he is also unclean until evening.
Complete Jewish Bible
The person who burned up the heifer is to wash his clothes and himself in water, but he will remain unclean until evening.
Darby Translation
and he that hath burned it shall wash his garments in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Easy-to-Read Version
The man who burns that cow must wash himself and his clothes in water. He will be unclean until evening.
George Lamsa Translation
And he who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; and he shall be unclean until the evening.
Good News Translation
The one who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and pour water over himself, but he also remains unclean until evening.
Christian Standard Bible®
The one who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
Literal Translation
And he that burned her shall wash his clothes in water, and shall bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he that burnt her, shal wash his clothes also with water, and bathe his body in water, & be vncleane vntyll ye euen.
American Standard Version
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Bible in Basic English
And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he that burneth her shall washe his clothes in water, & bathe his fleshe in water, and be vncleane vntyll euen.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
King James Version (1611)
And he that burneth her, shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be vncleane vntill the Euen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he that burns her shall wash his garments, and bathe his body, and shall be unclean till evening.
English Revised Version
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Berean Standard Bible
The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be unclean until evening.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also he that brente the cow, schal waische hise clothis, and bodi, and he schal be vncleene `til to euentid.
Young's Literal Translation
and he who is burning it doth wash his garments with water, and hath bathed his flesh with water, and is unclean till the evening.
Update Bible Version
And he that burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
World English Bible
He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
New King James Version
And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
New Living Translation
The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he, too, will remain unclean until evening.
New Life Bible
The one who burns it will also wash his clothes and wash his body in water. And he will be unclean until evening.
New Revised Standard
The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water; he shall remain unclean until evening.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, he that burneth her, shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, - and be unclean until the evening,
Douay-Rheims Bible
He also that hath burned her, shall wash his garments, and his body, and shall be unclean until the evening.
Revised Standard Version
He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The one who burns it shall also wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

Contextual Overview

1And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2"This [is] a statute of the law which YHWH has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and they bring a red cow to you, a perfect one, in which there is no blemish, on which no yoke has gone up; 3and you have given it to Eleazar the priest, and he has brought it out to the outside of the camp, and has slaughtered it before him. 4And Eleazar the priest has taken of its blood with his finger, and has sprinkled [it] toward the front of the face of the Tent of Meeting from its blood seven times; 5and [one] has burned the cow before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, besides her dung, he burns; 6and the priest has taken cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and has cast [them] into the midst of the burning of the cow; 7and the priest has washed his garments, and has bathed his flesh with water, and afterward comes into the camp, and the priest is unclean until the evening; 8and he who is burning it washes his garments with water, and has bathed his flesh with water, and is unclean until the evening.9And a clean man has gathered the ashes of the cow, and has placed [them] at the outside of the camp in a clean place, and it has become a charge for the congregation of the sons of Israel for waters of separation—it [is for] sin; 10and he who is gathering the ashes of the heifer has washed his garments and is unclean until the evening; and it has been to the sons of Israel and to the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst for a continuous statute.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:25 - and be unclean Leviticus 11:40 - shall wash Leviticus 16:26 - wash Leviticus 17:15 - both wash Numbers 8:7 - wash their Numbers 19:7 - General Numbers 19:10 - wash his John 13:10 - He

Cross-References

Genesis 18:5
and I bring a piece of bread, and support Your heart; afterward pass on, for therefore You have passed over to Your servant"; and they say, "So may you do as you have spoken."
Genesis 19:31
And the firstborn says to the younger, "Our father [is] old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us, as [is] the way of all the earth;
Genesis 19:38
As for the younger, she has also born a son and calls his name Ben-Ammi: he [is] father of the sons of Ammon to this day.
Genesis 42:37
And Reuben speaks to his father, saying, "You put to death my two sons, if I do not bring him to you; give him into my hand, and I bring him back to you";
Exodus 32:22
And Aaron says, "Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you have known the people, that it [is beset] with evil;
Judges 9:15
And the bramble says to the trees, If in truth you are anointing me for king over you, come, take refuge in my shadow; and if not—fire comes out from the bramble, and devours the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges 19:24
behold, my daughter, the virgin, and his concubine, please let me bring them out and you humble them, and do that which is good in your eyes to them, and do not do this foolish thing to this man."
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, || And bring home the wandering poor, || That you see the naked and cover him, || And do not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Mark 9:6
for he was not knowing what he might say, for they were greatly afraid.
Romans 3:8
And not, as we are spoken evil of, and as certain affirm us to say, "We may do the evil things, that the good ones may come?" Whose judgment is righteous.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 crucifixion of Christ was a very great sin, and done by wicked hands, yet was pardonable through the very blood that was shed by them, Acts 2:23.


 
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