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Numbers 19:10-12

King James Version (KJV)

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10. And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. 11. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 12. He shall purify himself 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.

Numbers 19:10-12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Numbers 19:10

Theological / Devotional

He that gathereth the ashes. The ashes were a purifying means for the repentant one who used them, but a defiling agent to the one who gathered them together.

Unto the stranger. The law of purity applied also to the non-Israelite. Similarly, the remission of sins through Jesus Christ was also for the “stranger” who was “afar off” (Acts 2:39).

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