Numbers 19:1, The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifer; Numbers 19:11, The law for the use of it in purification of the unclean.
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Numbers 19 — OverviewNumbers 19 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter is only concerning the preparing and using of the ashes
which were to impregnate the water of purification. The people had
complained of the strictness of the law, which forbade their near
approach…Numbers 19 — OverviewNumbers 19 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter contains a law for making a water for purification for sin, the ingredients of which are the ashes of a red heifer burnt, about which many things are observed, Nu 19:1; the use of the water made of them, to…Numbers 19:1-10Numbers 19:1-10 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe have here the divine appointment concerning the solemn burning of a
red heifer to ashes, and the preserving of the ashes, that of them
might be made, not a beautifying, but a purifying, water, for that was…Numbers 19:1Numbers 19:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryAnd the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron. On the addition of the second name see on Numbers 18:1. There is no note of time in connection with this chapter, but internal evidence points strongly to the supposition…Numbers 19:1-22Numbers 19:1-22 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION
THE ASHES OF AN HEIFER SPRINKLING THE UNCLEAN (Numbers 19:1-22).Numbers 19:1-22Numbers 19:1-22 · The Pulpit CommentaryTHE REMEDY OF DEATH
We have in this chapter, spiritually, death, and the remedy for death. Death is treated of not as the mere physical change which is the end of life, nor as the social and domestic loss which breaks…