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Revised Standard Version

Numbers 19:8

He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be 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 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.
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 Now the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron, 2 "This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and upon which a yoke has never come. 3 And you shall give her to Elea'zar the priest, and she shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him; 4 and Elea'zar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. 5 And the heifer shall be burned in his sight; her skin, her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burned; 6 and the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet stuff, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until evening. 8 He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening. 9 And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the people of Israel for the water for impurity, for the removal of sin. 10 And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. And this shall be to the people of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourns among them, a perpetual 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
while I fetch a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on--since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said."
Genesis 19:31
And the first-born said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
Genesis 19:38
The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
Genesis 42:37
Then Reuben said to his father, "Slay my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you."
Exodus 32:22
And Aaron said, "Let not the anger of my lord burn hot; you know the people, that they are set on evil.
Judges 9:15
And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'
Judges 19:24
Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine; let me bring them out now. Ravish them and do with them what seems good to you; but against this man do not do so vile a thing."
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Mark 9:6
For he did not know what to say, for they were exceedingly afraid.
Romans 3:8
And why not do evil that good may come? --as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

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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