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New Living Translation

Numbers 19:8

The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he, too, will remain unclean until 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;   Hafá¹­arah;   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 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

1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2 "Here is another legal requirement commanded by the Lord : Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer, a perfect animal that has no defects and has never been yoked to a plow. 3 Give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence. 4 Eleazar will take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tabernacle. 5 As Eleazar watches, the heifer must be burned—its hide, meat, blood, and dung. 6 Eleazar the priest must then take a stick of cedar, a hyssop branch, and some scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire where the heifer is burning. 7 "Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water. Afterward he may return to the camp, though he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening. 8 The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he, too, will remain unclean until evening. 9 Then someone who is ceremonially clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them in a purified place outside the camp. They will be kept there for the community of Israel to use in the water for the purification ceremony. This ceremony is performed for the removal of sin. 10 The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent law for the people of Israel and any foreigners who live among them.

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 since you've honored your servant with this visit, let me prepare some food to refresh you before you continue on your journey." "All right," they said. "Do as you have said."
Genesis 19:31
One day the older daughter said to her sister, "There are no men left anywhere in this entire area, so we can't get married like everyone else. And our father will soon be too old to have children.
Genesis 19:38
When the younger daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Ben-ammi. He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Ammonites.
Genesis 42:37
Then Reuben said to his father, "You may kill my two sons if I don't bring Benjamin back to you. I'll be responsible for him, and I promise to bring him back."
Exodus 32:22
"Don't get so upset, my lord," Aaron replied. "You yourself know how evil these people are.
Judges 9:15
And the thornbush replied to the trees, ‘If you truly want to make me your king, come and take shelter in my shade. If not, let fire come out from me and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'"
Judges 19:24
Here, take my virgin daughter and this man's concubine. I will bring them out to you, and you can abuse them and do whatever you like. But don't do such a shameful thing to this man."
Isaiah 58:7
Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help.
Mark 9:6
He said this because he didn't really know what else to say, for they were all terrified.
Romans 3:8
And some people even slander us by claiming that we say, "The more we sin, the better it is!" Those who say such things deserve to be condemned.

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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