Num 19:7-21, Deu 21:6, 23:11 | TSK

Numbers 19:7-21

8,19; Le 11:25,40; 14:8,9; 15:5; 16:26-28

clean.

lay them up.

a water of separation.That is, water prepared by being mixed with the ashes of the heifer, and set apart for the special purpose of being sprinkled on those who had contracted any legal defilement. To this rite the apostle Paul, in his epistle to the Hebrews. (ch. 9:13, 14,) pointedly alludes: "For if," says he, "the blood of bulls and of goats," alluding, probably, to the sin-offerings and the scape-goat, "and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot unto God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God."

13,20,21; 6:12; 31:23,24; Le 15:20; Zec 13:1; 2Co 7:1

wash his.

7,8,19

it shall be.

15:15,16; Ex 12:49; Ro 3:29,30; Col 3:11

toucheth the dead.He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day, (Le 11:12, 27, 39;) but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to show the peculiar impurity and sinfulness of man, and the hatefulness of sin, seven times worse than the vilest animal!

16; 5:2; 9:6,10; 31:19; Le 11:31; 21:1,11; La 4:14; Hag 2:13

Ro 5:12; 2Co 6:17; Eph 2:1; Heb 9:14

man. Heb. soul of man.

He shall purify."Yithchatta," literally, "he shall sin himself," i.e., not add sin, but take it away, purify. So we say to fleece, and to skin, which do not signify to add a fleece, or a skin, but to take one away.

17,18; Ps 51:7; Eze 36:25; Ac 15:9; Re 7:14

third day.

31:19; Ex 19:11,15; Le 7:17; Ho 6:2; 1Co 15:3,4

purifieth.

15:30; Le 5:3,6,17; 15:31; Heb 2:2,3; 10:29; Re 21:8; 22:11,15

the water.

9,18; 8:7

his uncleanness.

Le 7:20; 22:3; Pr 14:32; Joh 8:24

31:20; Le 11:32; 14:36

toucheth.

11; 31:19