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Contemporary English Version

Numbers 19:8

The man who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and take a bath, but he is also unclean until evening.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ablution;   Defilement;   Purification;   Water;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Defilement;   Purifications or Baptisms;   Red Heifer, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ashes;   Clean and Unclean;   Heifer;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Color, Symbolic Meaning of;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Heifer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ablutions;   Heifer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Colours;   Numbers, Book of;   Red Heifer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Preparation ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Atonement;   Heifer, Red;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Red heifer;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ashes;   Clean and unclean;   Covenant;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Heifer;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ablution;   Baptism (Non-Immersionist View);   Heifer, Red;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ablution;   Hafá¹­arah;   Law, Reading from the;   Red Heifer;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
King James Version
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Lexham English Bible
The one who burns it will wash his garments and his body in water; he will be unclean until the evening.
English Standard Version
The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening.
New Century Version
The man who burns the cow must wash himself and his clothes in water; he will be unclean until evening.
New English Translation
The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
Amplified Bible
'The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
New American Standard Bible
'The one who burns the heifer shall also wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and will be unclean until evening.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also he that burneth her, shall wash his clothes in water, and wash his flesh in water, and be vncleane vntill euen.
Legacy Standard Bible
The one who burns it shall also wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening.
Complete Jewish Bible
The person who burned up the heifer is to wash his clothes and himself in water, but he will remain unclean until evening.
Darby Translation
and he that hath burned it shall wash his garments in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Easy-to-Read Version
The man who burns that cow must wash himself and his clothes in water. He will be unclean until evening.
George Lamsa Translation
And he who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; and he shall be unclean until the evening.
Good News Translation
The one who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and pour water over himself, but he also remains unclean until evening.
Christian Standard Bible®
The one who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
Literal Translation
And he that burned her shall wash his clothes in water, and shall bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he that burnt her, shal wash his clothes also with water, and bathe his body in water, & be vncleane vntyll ye euen.
American Standard Version
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Bible in Basic English
And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he that burneth her shall washe his clothes in water, & bathe his fleshe in water, and be vncleane vntyll euen.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
King James Version (1611)
And he that burneth her, shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be vncleane vntill the Euen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he that burns her shall wash his garments, and bathe his body, and shall be unclean till evening.
English Revised Version
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Berean Standard Bible
The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be unclean until evening.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also he that brente the cow, schal waische hise clothis, and bodi, and he schal be vncleene `til to euentid.
Young's Literal Translation
and he who is burning it doth wash his garments with water, and hath bathed his flesh with water, and is unclean till the evening.
Update Bible Version
And he that burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
World English Bible
He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
New King James Version
And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
New Living Translation
The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he, too, will remain unclean until evening.
New Life Bible
The one who burns it will also wash his clothes and wash his body in water. And he will be unclean until evening.
New Revised Standard
The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water; he shall remain unclean until evening.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, he that burneth her, shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, - and be unclean until the evening,
Douay-Rheims Bible
He also that hath burned her, shall wash his garments, and his body, and shall be unclean until the evening.
Revised Standard Version
He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The one who burns it shall also wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

Contextual Overview

1The Lord gave Moses and Aaron the following law: The people of Israel must bring Moses a reddish-brown cow that has nothing wrong with it and that has never been used for plowing. 3 Moses will give it to Eleazar the priest, then it will be led outside the camp and killed while Eleazar watches. 4 He will dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it seven times in the direction of the sacred tent. 5 Then the whole cow, including its skin, meat, blood, and insides must be burned. 6 A priest is to throw a stick of cedar wood, a hyssop branch, and a piece of red yarn into the fire. 7 After the ceremony, the priest is to take a bath and wash his clothes. Only then can he go back into the camp, but he remains unclean and unfit for worship until evening. 8 The man who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and take a bath, but he is also unclean until evening. 9 A man who isn't unclean must collect the ashes of the burnt cow and store them outside the camp in a clean place. The people of Israel can mix these ashes with the water used in the ceremony to wash away sin. 10 The man who collects the ashes must wash his clothes, but will remain unclean until evening. This law must always be obeyed by the people of Israel and the foreigners living among them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:25 - and be unclean Leviticus 11:40 - shall wash Leviticus 16:26 - wash Leviticus 17:15 - both wash Numbers 8:7 - wash their Numbers 19:7 - General Numbers 19:10 - wash his John 13:10 - He

Cross-References

Genesis 18:5
Let me get you some food to give you strength before you leave. I would be honored to serve you." "Thank you very much," they answered. "We accept your offer."
Genesis 19:31
One day his older daughter said to her sister, "Our father is old, and there are no men anywhere for us to marry.
Genesis 19:38
The younger daughter named her son Benammi, and he is the ancestor of the Ammonites.
Genesis 42:37
Reuben spoke up, "Father, if I don't bring Benjamin back, you can kill both of my sons. Trust me with him, and I will bring him back."
Exodus 32:22
Aaron answered: Don't be angry with me. You know as well as I do that they are determined to do evil.
Judges 9:15
The thornbush replied, "If you really want me to be your king, then come into my shade and I will protect you. But if you're deceiving me, I'll start a fire that will spread out and destroy the cedars of Lebanon." After Jotham had finished telling this story, he said:
Judges 19:24
Let me send out my daughter instead. She's a virgin. And I'll even send out the man's wife. You can rape them or do whatever else you want, but please don't do such a horrible thing to this man."
Isaiah 58:7
Share your food with everyone who is hungry; share your home with the poor and homeless. Give clothes to those in need; don't turn away your relatives.
Mark 9:6
But Peter and the others were terribly frightened, and he did not know what he was talking about.
Romans 3:8
You might as well say, "Let's do something evil, so that something good will come of it!" Some people even claim that we are saying this. But God is fair and will judge them as well.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water,.... In forty seahs of water, as the Targum of Jonathan: this shows that one different from this is designed in Numbers 19:7; and that this is one distinct from him that sprinkled the blood, Numbers 19:4;

and bathe his flesh in water: in a like quantity, as the above Targum:

and shall be unclean until the even: and, though washed, might not go into the camp until that time: this may signify, as before, that though the crucifixion of Christ was a very great sin, and done by wicked hands, yet was pardonable through the very blood that was shed by them, Acts 2:23.


 
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