Numbers 19:3

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.

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.

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.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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;

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 Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying, ² `This [is] a statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the sons of Israel, and they bring unto thee a red cow, a perfect one, in which there is no blemish, on which no yoke hath gone up; <sup>3</sup> 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. <sup>4</sup> `And Eleazar the priest hath taken of its blood with his finger, and hath sprinkled over-against the front of the tent of meeting of her blood seven times; ⁵ and [one] hath burnt the cow before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, besides her dung, he doth burn; ⁶ and the priest hath taken cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and hath cast unto the midst of the burning of the cow; ⁷ and the priest hath washed his garments, and hath bathed his flesh with water, and afterwards doth come in unto the camp, and the priest is unclean till the evening; ⁸ 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. ⁹ `And a clean man hath gathered the ashes of the cow, and hath placed at the outside of the camp, in a clean place, and it hath become to the company of the sons of Israel a charge for waters of separation -- it [is] a [cleansing]; ¹⁰ and he who is gathering the ashes of the heifer hath washed his garments, and is unclean till the evening; and it hath been to the sons of Israel, and to the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, for a statute age-during.

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 goeth out unto them, to the opening, and the door hath shut behind him,

Genesis 19:8
lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.'

Genesis 19:28
and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.

Genesis 19:29
And it cometh to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.

Genesis 21:8
And the lad groweth, and is weaned, and Abraham maketh a great banquet in the day of Isaac's being weaned;

Exodus 12:15
Seven days ye eat unleavened things; only -- in the first day ye cause leaven to cease out of your houses; for any one eating anything fermented from the first day till the seventh day, even that person hath been cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:39
And they bake with the dough which they have brought out from Egypt unleavened cakes, for it hath not fermented; for they have been cast out of Egypt, and have not been able to delay, and also provision they have not made for themselves.

Judges 6:19
And Gideon hath gone in, and prepareth a kid of the goats, and of an ephah of flour unleavened things; the flesh he hath put in a basket, and the broth he hath put in a pot, and he bringeth out unto Him, unto the place of the oak, and bringeth [it] nigh.

1 Samuel 28:24
And the woman hath a calf of the stall in the house, and she hasteth and slaughtereth it, and taketh flour, and kneadeth, and baketh it unleavened things,

2 Kings 4:8
And the day cometh that Elisha passeth over unto Shunem, and there [is] a great woman, and she layeth hold on him to eat bread, and it cometh to pass, at the time of his passing over, he turneth 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.