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Commentaries on Numbers 19:8

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Numbers 19 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, Numbers 19:1; the use of the water made of them, to purify such as were unclean by the touch of a dead body, Numbers 19:11; some rules are given, by which it might be known who were unclean on...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water,.... In forty seahs of water, as the Targum of Jonathan: this shows that one different from this is designed in Numbers 19:7; and that this is one distinct from him that sprinkled the blood, Numbers 19:4; and bathe his flesh in water: in a like quantity, as the above Targum: and shall be unclean until the even: and, though washed, might not...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

This 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 to the tabernacle, ch. xvii. 13. In answer to this complaint, they are here directed to purify themselves, so as that they might come as far as they had occasion without fear. Here is, I....

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. And a man that is clean- Now we come to the merit of Christ, for who is clean except Christ?