Numbers 19:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

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  • Lev 11:25 : 25 and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.
  • Lev 11:40 : 40 One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
  • Lev 16:26-28 : 26 and the one who sent the goat away to Azazel must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp. 27 The bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought to make atonement in the holy place, must be brought outside the camp and their hide, their flesh, and their dung must be burned up, 28 and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.
  • Heb 7:19 : 19 for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
  • Heb 9:13-14 : 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
  • Heb 10:4 : 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

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  • Num 19:22
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    22And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”

  • Num 19:7-20
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    87%

    7Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and afterward he may come into the camp, but the priest will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

    8The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

    9“‘Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification– it is a purification for sin.

    10The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer must wash his clothes and be ceremonially unclean until evening. This will be a permanent ordinance both for the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them.

    11Purification from Uncleanness“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

    12He must purify himself with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean.

    13Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.

    14“‘This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

    15And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean.

    16And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

    17“‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel.

    18Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.

    19And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening.

    20But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

  • Lev 15:27
    84%

    27and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 15:10-13
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    82%

    10Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    11Anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    12A clay vessel which the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed in water.

    13Purity Regulations for Male Bodily Discharges“‘When the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge he is to count off for himself seven days for his purification, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in fresh water, and be clean.

  • Lev 15:5-8
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    5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    6The one who sits on the furniture the man with a discharge sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    7The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    8If the man with a discharge spits on a person who is ceremonially clean, that person must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 22:5-6
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    5or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity–

    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

  • Lev 15:16-23
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    16“‘When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,

    17and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.

    18As for a woman whom a man goes to bed with, then has a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

    19Female Bodily Discharges“‘When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

    20Anything she lies on during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.

    21Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    22Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    23If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening,

  • Exod 30:21
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    21they must wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants throughout their generations.”

  • Lev 15:31
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    31Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

  • Lev 17:15-16
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    15Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

    16But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”

  • Num 8:7
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    7And do this to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification on them; then have them shave all their body and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

  • Num 31:23-24
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    23everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.

    24You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”

  • Lev 11:32
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    32Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean– any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

  • Lev 16:19
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    19Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it from the impurities of the Israelites.

  • Lev 11:25
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    25and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 16:28
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    28and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

  • Deut 23:11
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    11When evening arrives he must wash himself with water and then at sunset he may reenter the camp.

  • Lev 11:28
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    28and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

  • Exod 30:19
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    19and Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet from it.

  • Lev 6:27
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    27Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

  • Lev 14:8
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    8The Seven Days of Purification“The one being cleansed must then wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and so be clean. Then afterward he may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent seven days.