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Chapter 19

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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.

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1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

2This is the statute of the instruction that Yahweh commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them bring you a red cow, whole, in which there is no defect, on which no yoke has gone up.

Notes (1)

Translation
Parah adummah is a red cow. Temimah is whole. Mum is a defect, as in Leviticus. Chukkat ha-torah is the statute of the instruction.

3You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside the camp, and he shall slaughter her before him.

4Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood on his finger and sprinkle some of her blood seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting.

5He shall burn the cow before his eyes. Her hide, her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, he shall burn.

6The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the midst of the burning of the cow.

Notes (1)

Translation
Erez is cedar wood. Ezov is hyssop. Sheni tola’at is scarlet yarn, as in the cleansing of Leviticus.

7The priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and after that he may come into the camp. The priest shall be unclean until evening.

8The one who burns her shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and he shall be unclean until evening.

9A clean man shall gather the ash of the cow and set it outside the camp in a clean place. It shall be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel, for the water of separation. It is an offense offering.

Notes (1)

Translation
Mei niddah is the water of separation. Niddah is the same word as menstrual separation in Leviticus. Here it names the water used when a corpse has made someone unclean. The ash is called a chatat, an offense offering, though it is not placed on the altar.

10The one who gathers the ash of the cow shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. It shall be a lasting statute for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourns in their midst.

11Whoever touches the dead, any human person, shall be unclean seven days.

12He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean. If he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he shall not be clean.

13Anyone who touches the dead, the person of a human who has died, and does not purify himself, has made Yahweh’s dwelling unclean. That person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water of separation was not dashed on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.

14This is the instruction. When a human dies in a tent, everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

15Every open vessel that has no cord bound on its lid is unclean.

Notes (1)

Translation
Tzamid patil is a lid with a cord bound on it. A vessel left open, without that binding, is unclean.

16Anyone in the open field who touches one slain by the sword, or a corpse, or a human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

17For the unclean person they shall take some of the dust of the burning of the offense offering, and living water shall be put on it in a vessel.

Notes (1)

Translation
Mayim chayyim is living water, water that is flowing, as in Leviticus.

18A clean man shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on the one who touched the bone, or the slain, or the corpse, or the grave.

19The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. He shall purify him on the seventh day. He shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he shall be clean at evening.

20A man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has made Yahweh’s sanctuary unclean. The water of separation was not dashed on him. He is unclean.

21It shall be a lasting statute for them. The one who sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of separation shall be unclean until evening.

22Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.

Numbers

Chapter 19

A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.

1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

2This is the statute of the instruction that Yahweh commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them bring you a red cow, whole, in which there is no defect, on which no yoke has gone up.

Notes (1)

Translation
Parah adummah is a red cow. Temimah is whole. Mum is a defect, as in Leviticus. Chukkat ha-torah is the statute of the instruction.

3You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside the camp, and he shall slaughter her before him.

4Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood on his finger and sprinkle some of her blood seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting.

5He shall burn the cow before his eyes. Her hide, her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, he shall burn.

6The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the midst of the burning of the cow.

Notes (1)

Translation
Erez is cedar wood. Ezov is hyssop. Sheni tola’at is scarlet yarn, as in the cleansing of Leviticus.

7The priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and after that he may come into the camp. The priest shall be unclean until evening.

8The one who burns her shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and he shall be unclean until evening.

Notes (1)

Translation
Mei niddah is the water of separation. Niddah is the same word as menstrual separation in Leviticus. Here it names the water used when a corpse has made someone unclean. The ash is called a chatat, an offense offering, though it is not placed on the altar.

10The one who gathers the ash of the cow shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. It shall be a lasting statute for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourns in their midst.

11Whoever touches the dead, any human person, shall be unclean seven days.

12He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean. If he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he shall not be clean.

14This is the instruction. When a human dies in a tent, everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

15Every open vessel that has no cord bound on its lid is unclean.

Notes (1)

Translation
Tzamid patil is a lid with a cord bound on it. A vessel left open, without that binding, is unclean.

16Anyone in the open field who touches one slain by the sword, or a corpse, or a human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

17For the unclean person they shall take some of the dust of the burning of the offense offering, and living water shall be put on it in a vessel.

Notes (1)

Translation
Mayim chayyim is living water, water that is flowing, as in Leviticus.

21It shall be a lasting statute for them. The one who sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of separation shall be unclean until evening.

22Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.