Numbers 19 — Overview

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This 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 purify such as were unclean by the touch of a dead body, Nu 19:11; some rules are given, by which it might be known who were unclean on account of a dead body, Nu 19:14; the manner of purifying such persons, Nu 19:17; and the punishment of those that should neglect purification, Nu 19:20.

Ver. 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron,....

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