Numbers 19:1

Christian Standard Bible ®

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron,

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

New Century Version
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Amplified Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises and to Aaron,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

Contemporary English Version
The 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.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses & Aaron, saying:

Complete Jewish Bible
[In regular years read with Parashah 40, in leap years read separately] Adonai said to Moshe and Aharon,

Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying,

New Life Bible
Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lorde spake to Moses, and to Aaron, saying,

George Lamsa Translation
AND the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Good News Translation
The Lord commanded Moses and Aaron

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

Revised Standard Version
Now the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,

King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE spake vnto Moses & Aaro & sayde:

THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses and Aaron: "This is the rule from the Revelation that God commands: Tell the People of Israel to get a red cow, a healthy specimen, ritually clean, that has never been in harness. Present it to Eleazar the priest, then take it outside the camp and butcher it while he looks on. Eleazar will take some of the blood on his finger and splash it seven times in the direction of the Tent of Meeting.

New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

New King James Version
Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

New Living Translation
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, ²“This is the legal statute that the Lord has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red cow that has no defect and has never been yoked. ³Give it to the priest Eleazar, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence. ⁴The priest Eleazar is to take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting. ⁵The cow is to be burned in his sight. Its hide, flesh, and blood, are to be burned along with its waste. ⁶The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson yarn, and throw them onto the fire where the cow is burning. ⁷Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening. ⁸The one who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will remain unclean until evening. ⁹“A man who is clean is to gather up the cow’s ashes and deposit them outside the camp in a ceremonially clean place. The ashes will be kept by the Israelite community for preparing the water to remove impurity; it is a sin offering. ¹⁰Then the one who gathers up the cow’s ashes must wash his clothes, and he will remain unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the alien who resides among them.

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Cross-References

Genesis 18:22
The men turned from there and went toward Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the Lord.

Genesis 19:1
The two angels entered Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in Sodom’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He bowed with his face to the ground

Genesis 19:5
They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!”

Job 31:32
No stranger had to spend the night on the street,for I opened my door to the traveler.

Hebrews 13:2
Don’t neglect to show hospitality, for by doing this some have welcomed angels as guests without knowing it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron,.... Not at this time, after the business of the spies, and the affair of Korah, but before the children of Israel departed from Sinai; and so Aben Ezra observes, that this was spoken in the wilderness of Sinai, when the Lord commanded to put unclean persons out of the camp, and when some were defiled with a dead body, and unfit for the passover, Numbers 5:2; and mention is made of the "water of purifying", Numbers 8:7;

saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The principle that death and all pertaining to it, as being the manifestation and result of sin Genesis 2:17, are defiling, and so lead to interruption of the living relationship between God and His people, is not now introduced for the first time, nor is it at all peculiar to the Mosaic law. It was, on the contrary, traditional among the Israelites from the earliest times, it is assumed in various enactments made already (compare Numbers 5:2; Numbers 9:6 ff; Leviticus 10:1, Leviticus 10:7; Leviticus 11:8, Leviticus 11:11, Leviticus 11:24; Leviticus 21:1 ff), and it is traceable in various forms among many nations, both ancient and modern. Moses adopted, here as elsewhere, existing and ancient customs, with significant additions, as helps in the spiritual education of his people.

The ordinance was probably given at this time because the plague which happened Numbers 16:46-50 about the matter of Korah had spread the defilement of death so widely through the camp as to seem to require some special measures of purification, more particularly as the deaths through it were in an extraordinary manner the penalty of sin.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIX

The ordinance of the red heifer, 1, 2.

She shall be slain by Eleazar without the camp, and her blood

sprinkled before the tabernacle, 3, 4.

Her whole body and appurtenance shall be reduced to ashes, and

while burning, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop, shall be thrown

into the fire, 5, 6.

The priest, and he that burns her, to bathe themselves, and be

reputed unclean till the evening, 7, 8.

Her ashes to be laid up for a water of purification, 9.

How, and in what cases it is to be applied, 10-13.

The law concerning him who dies in a tent, or who is killed in

the open field, 14-16.

How the persons, tent, and vessels are to be purified by the

application of these ashes, 17-19.

The unclean person who does not apply them, to be cut off from

the congregation, 20.

This is to be a perpetual statute, 21, 22.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIX