Nu 19:2
19:2 {a} This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath
     commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that
     they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein [is] no
     blemish, [and] upon which never came yoke:

     (a) According to this law and ceremony you shall sacrifice
         the red cow.

Nu 19:3
19:3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may
     bring her forth without the camp, and {b} [one] shall slay
     her before his face:

     (b) Another priest.

Nu 19:7
19:7 Then the {c} priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall
     bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into
     the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

     (c) Meaning, Eleazar.

Nu 19:8
19:8 And he that {d} burneth her shall wash his clothes in
     water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean
     until the even.

     (d) The inferior priest who killed her, and burned her.

Nu 19:9
19:9 And a man [that is] clean shall gather up the ashes of the
     heifer, and lay [them] up without the camp in a clean
     place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the
     children of Israel for a {e} water of separation: it [is] a
     purification for sin.

     (e) Or, the water of separation because they that were
         separate due to their uncleanness, were sprinkled with
         it and made clean, @Nu 8:7. It is also called holy
         water, because it was ordained for a holy use,
         @Nu 1:17.

Nu 19:12
19:12 He shall purify himself {f} with it on the third day, and
      on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not
      himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not
      be clean.

      (f) With the sprinkling of water.

Nu 19:13
19:13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead,
      and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the
      LORD; and that soul shall be {g} cut off from Israel:
      because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon
      him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness [is] yet upon
      him.

      (g) So that he should not be esteemed to be of the holy
          people, but as a polluted and excommunicated person.

Nu 19:17
19:17 And for an unclean [person] they shall take of the ashes
      of the burnt heifer of purification for {h} sin, and {i}
      running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

      (h) Of the red cow burnt for sin.
      (i) Water of the fountain or river.

Nu 19:18
19:18 And a {k} clean person shall take hyssop, and dip [it] in
      the water, and sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and upon all
      the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and
      upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead,
      or a grave:

      (k) One of the priests who is clean.

Nu 19:19
19:19 And the clean [person] shall sprinkle upon the unclean on
      the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh
      day he shall purify himself, and {l} wash his clothes, and
      bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

      (l) Because he had been among them that were unclean: or
          else had touched the water as in @Nu 19:21.

Nu 19:22
19:22 And whatsoever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be
      unclean; and the soul that toucheth {m} [it] shall be
      unclean until even.

      (m) That is, unclean.



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