1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
2 "This is the regulation which the law of the LORD prescribes. Tell the Israelites to procure for you a red heifer that is free from every blemish and defect and on which no yoke has ever been laid.
3 This is to be given to Eleazar the priest, to be led outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
4 Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the meeting tent.
5 Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight, with its hide and flesh, its blood and offal;
6 and the priest shall take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire in which the heifer is being burned.
7 The priest shall then wash his garments and bathe his body in water. He remains unclean until the evening, and only afterward may he return to the camp.
8 Likewise, he who burned the heifer shall wash his garments, bathe his body in water, and be unclean until evening.
9 Finally, a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them in a clean place outside the camp. There they are to be kept for preparing lustral water for the Israelite community. The heifer is a sin offering.
10 He who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer shall also wash his garments and be unclean until evening. This is a perpetual ordinance, both for the Israelites and for the aliens residing among them.
11 "Whoever touches the dead body of any human being shall be unclean for seven days;
12 he shall purify himself with the water on the third and on the seventh day, and then he will be clean again. But if he fails to purify himself on the third and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.
13 Everyone who fails to purify himself after touching the body of any deceased person, defiles the Dwelling of the LORD and shall be cut off from Israel. Since the lustral water has not been splashed over him, he remains unclean: his uncleanness still clings to him.
14 "This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, everyone who enters the tent, as well as everyone already in it, shall be unclean for seven days;
15 likewise, every vessel that is open, or with its lid unfastened, shall be unclean.
16 Moreover, everyone who in the open country touches a dead person, whether he was slain by the sword or died naturally, or who touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.
17 For anyone who is thus unclean, ashes from the sin offering shall be put in a vessel, and spring water shall be poured on them.
18 Then a man who is clean shall take some hyssop, dip it in this water, and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the vessels and persons that were in it, or on him who touched a bone, a slain person or other dead body, or a grave.
19 The clean man shall sprinkle the unclean on the third and on the seventh day; thus purified on the seventh day, he shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water, and in the evening he will be clean again.
20 Any unclean man who fails to have himself purified shall be cut off from the community, because he defiles the sanctuary of the LORD. As long as the lustral water has not been splashed over him, he remains unclean.
21 This shall be a perpetual ordinance for you. "One who sprinkles the lustral water shall wash his garments, and anyone who comes in contact with this water shall be unclean until evening.
22 Moreover, whatever the unclean person touches becomes unclean itself, and anyone who touches it becomes unclean until evening."
Versículos relacionados com Numbers, 19:
Numbers 19 talks about the ordinance of the red cow, a ritual of purification for those who touched a corpse or were in contact with a dead person. The red cow, which should be completely red and without defect, was sacrificed outside the camp and its ashes were used to prepare the water of purification. Those who were unclean needed to be aspergated with the water of purification on the third and seventh day so that they could be considered clean again. Below are four verses related to topics addressed in numbers 19:
Leviticus 16:26 - "He who releases the goat to Azazel will wash his robes and bathe his body in water, and then enter the village." This verse talks about the day of atonement, another day of purification for the people of Israel, who involved the sacrifice of two goats, one to the Lord and one for Azazel.
Hebrews 9:13-14 - "For if the blood of the bulls and goats and the ash of a heifer sprinkled over the filthy of the sanctifies, as to the purification of the flesh, much more the blood of Christ, which by the eternal spirit offered himself to himself Even immaculate to God, will you purify your conscience of the dead works to serve the living God? " This verse shows that purification through animal sacrifices was not sufficient for the total purification of sins, and that only Christ's sacrifice could completely purify.
Hebrews 9:19-22 - "For if there are Moses announced to all the people all commandments according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water, purple wool, hisssop and spread both the same book and all the people , saying, This is the blood of the testament that God has sent you. And it has similarly spread with blood the tabernacle and all the vessels of ministry. And almost all things, according to the law, purify themselves with blood; and without bloodshed not There is remission. " This verse talks about the importance of bloodshed in the rituals of purification, and how this applies to purification by the blood of Christ.
1 John 1:7 - "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have communion with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin." This verse talks about the importance of living in communion with God and with others, and how the blood of Jesus can purify us from all sins.
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