Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NLT

NLT

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
The Blue Letter Bible

Numbers 19 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

toggle collapse
Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles
The Water of Purification

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:1 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:2 - “Here is another legal requirement commanded by the LORD: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer, a perfect animal that has no defects and has never been yoked to a plow.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:3 - Give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:4 - Eleazar will take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tabernacle.[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:5 - As Eleazar watches, the heifer must be burned—its hide, meat, blood, and dung.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:6 - Eleazar the priest must then take a stick of cedar,[fn] a hyssop branch, and some scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire where the heifer is burning.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7 - “Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water. Afterward he may return to the camp, though he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:8 - The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he, too, will remain unclean until evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:9 - Then someone who is ceremonially clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them in a purified place outside the camp. They will be kept there for the community of Israel to use in the water for the purification ceremony. This ceremony is performed for the removal of sin.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10 - The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent law for the people of Israel and any foreigners who live among them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:11 - “All those who touch a dead human body will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:12 - They must purify themselves on the third and seventh days with the water of purification; then they will be purified. But if they do not do this on the third and seventh days, they will continue to be unclean even after the seventh day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - All those who touch a dead body and do not purify themselves in the proper way defile the LORD’s Tabernacle, and they will be cut off from the community of Israel. Since the water of purification was not sprinkled on them, their defilement continues.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:14 - “This is the ritual law that applies when someone dies inside a tent: All those who enter that tent and those who were inside when the death occurred will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:15 - Any open container in the tent that was not covered with a lid is also defiled.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - And if someone in an open field touches the corpse of someone who was killed with a sword or who died a natural death, or if someone touches a human bone or a grave, that person will be defiled for seven days.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17 - “To remove the defilement, put some of the ashes from the burnt purification offering in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - Then someone who is ceremonially clean must take a hyssop branch and dip it into the water. That person must sprinkle the water on the tent, on all the furnishings in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent; also on the person who touched a human bone, or touched someone who was killed or who died naturally, or touched a grave.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19 - On the third and seventh days the person who is ceremonially clean must sprinkle the water on those who are defiled. Then on the seventh day the people being cleansed must wash their clothes and bathe themselves, and that evening they will be cleansed of their defilement.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - “But those who become defiled and do not purify themselves will be cut off from the community, for they have defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Since the water of purification has not been sprinkled on them, they remain defiled.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21 - This is a permanent law for the people. Those who sprinkle the water of purification must afterward wash their clothes, and anyone who then touches the water used for purification will remain defiled until evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22 - Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be ceremonially unclean until evening.”
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
Hebrew the Tent of Meeting.
Or juniper.
NLT

Holy Bible, New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Full copyright information is provided here. Visit the New Living Translation website.

For more information on this translation, see the NLT Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NLT
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NLT
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.