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1 Ug si Jehova misulti kang Moises ug kang Aaron, nga nagaingon:
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Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the Lord spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron,.... Not at this time, after the business of the spies, and the affair of Korah, but before the children of Israel departed from Sinai; and so Aben Ezra observes, that this was spoken in the wilderness of Sinai, when the Lord commanded to put unclean persons out of the camp, and when some were defiled with a dead body, and unfit for the passover, Numbers 5:2; and mention is made of the "water of purifying", Numbers 8:7;
saying; as follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The principle that death and all pertaining to it, as being the manifestation and result of sin Genesis 2:17, are defiling, and so lead to interruption of the living relationship between God and His people, is not now introduced for the first time, nor is it at all peculiar to the Mosaic law. It was, on the contrary, traditional among the Israelites from the earliest times, it is assumed in various enactments made already (compare Numbers 5:2; Numbers 9:6 ff; Leviticus 10:1, Leviticus 10:7; Leviticus 11:8, Leviticus 11:11, Leviticus 11:24; Leviticus 21:1 ff), and it is traceable in various forms among many nations, both ancient and modern. Moses adopted, here as elsewhere, existing and ancient customs, with significant additions, as helps in the spiritual education of his people.
The ordinance was probably given at this time because the plague which happened Numbers 16:46-50 about the matter of Korah had spread the defilement of death so widely through the camp as to seem to require some special measures of purification, more particularly as the deaths through it were in an extraordinary manner the penalty of sin.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XIX
The ordinance of the red heifer, 1, 2.
She shall be slain by Eleazar without the camp, and her blood
sprinkled before the tabernacle, 3, 4.
Her whole body and appurtenance shall be reduced to ashes, and
while burning, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop, shall be thrown
into the fire, 5, 6.
The priest, and he that burns her, to bathe themselves, and be
reputed unclean till the evening, 7, 8.
Her ashes to be laid up for a water of purification, 9.
How, and in what cases it is to be applied, 10-13.
The law concerning him who dies in a tent, or who is killed in
the open field, 14-16.
How the persons, tent, and vessels are to be purified by the
application of these ashes, 17-19.
The unclean person who does not apply them, to be cut off from
the congregation, 20.
This is to be a perpetual statute, 21, 22.
NOTES ON CHAP. XIX