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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Numbers 19:3

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;

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
Give that cow to Eleazar, and he will take it outside the camp and kill it there.
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.
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 And Yahweh spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 2 This, is the statute of the law, which Yahweh hath commanded, saying, - Speak unto the sons of Israel - That they bring unto thee a red heifer, without defect wherein is no blemish, and whereupon hath come no yoke. 3 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; 4 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, - and shall sprinkle towards the front of the tent of meeting: of her blood, seven times; 5 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. 6 Then shall the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and crimson, - and east lute the midst of the burning up of the heifer. 7 And the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and afterwards come into the camp, - but the priest shall be unclean until the evening, 8 And, he that burneth her, shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, - and be unclean until the evening, 9 Then shall a man that is clean gather up the ashes of the heifer, and put them by, outside the camp, in a clean place, - so shall they be for the assembly of the sons of Israel to keep for water of separation it is a taking away of sin. 10 Then shall he that gathered up the ashes wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening, - so shall it be for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner that sojourneth in your midst by a statute age-abiding.

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
And Lot went forth unto them to the entrance; but the door, closed he behind him.
Genesis 19:8
Behold, I pray you, I, have two daughters who have not known man, I must needs now bring, them, forth unto you, and do ye to them, as may be good in your eyes, - Only to these men, ye may do nothing; for on this account, have they come under the shade of my roof.
Genesis 19:28
and he looked out over the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and over all the face of the land of the circuit, and beheld and lo! the smoke of the land went up, like the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 19:29
And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the circuit, that God remembered Abraham, and sent forth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities wherein Lot had dwelt.
Genesis 21:8
And the child grew, and was weaned, - and Abraham made a great banquet, on the day of the weaning of Isaac.
Exodus 12:15
Seven days, unleavened cakes, shall ye eat, surely, on the first day, shall ye put away leaven, out of your houses, - for whosoever eateth what is leavened, then shall that soul be cut off out of Israel, from the first day, unto the seventh day.
Exodus 12:39
Then baked they the dough which they had brought out of Egypt - into round unleavened cakes for it had not been leavened, - for they had been driven out of Egypt and could not tarry, and indeed no provisions, had they made ready for themselves.
Judges 6:19
So, Gideon, went in, and made ready a kid of the goats, and, of an ephah of meal, unleavened cakes, the flesh, he put in a basket, and, the broth, he put in a pot, - and brought them forth unto him, under the oak, and presented them.
1 Samuel 28:24
Now, the woman, had a calf fattening, in the shed. So she hastened, and sacrificed it, - and took meal, and kneaded, and baked thereof, unleavened cakes;
2 Kings 4:8
And so it was, on a day, that Elisha passed over unto Shunem, where was a woman of position, and she constrained him to eat bread, - and so it came about, whensoever he passed that way, that he turned aside thither, to eat bread.

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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