(19:1-22) "This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded."
These absurd rituals, cruel sacrifices, and unjust punishments are vitally
important to God. They are to be "a perpetual statute" for everyone on earth.
(19:2) "A red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish"
Some fundamentalists believe
that when a red heifer is born, Armageddon will soon follow. Well, a red heifer was born in March 2002 and has
been declared ritually acceptable by the rabbis. So in a few years it can be sacrificed, ushering in, so they
say, the end of the world. You can read all about it
here in the National Review.
(19:4-5) "Take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle ... seven times."
God's instructions for putting blood
on fingers, sprinkling it around, and then burning
the dung of sacrificial animals. This is something that everyone
needs to know about. (That's why it's in the Bible!).
(19:7-8) "Then the priest shall wash his clothes,
and he shall bathe ... and shall be unclean until the even." (The guy who burns the dung also has to take a bath, which
sounds like a pretty good idea to me.)
(19:9) "And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer ...
and it shall be kept ... for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin."
After you kill and burn the dung of the red heifer have a clean guy gather the ashes and then be sure to keep them for
"a water of separation: it is a purification for sin."
(19:10) "He that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the even; and it shall be ... a statute forever."
(19:11) "He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall
be unclean seven days." (Bad news for understakers.)
(19:12) "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."
(Use the "water of separation" made from the ashes of the dung of the red heifer. See v. 9.)
(19:13) "Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead,
and purifieth not himself ... shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him,
he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him."
(19:14) "When a man dieth in a tent: all that come into
the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days."
(19:15) "And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it,
is unclean." (Don't you just hate it when people leave the lid off containers?)
(19:16) "And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword ...
or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days."
(19:17-19) "And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of
the burnt heifer ... And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it ... upon him that touched a bone,
or one slain, or one dead, or a grave. And the clean person
shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day:
and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even." (Well that sounds simple enough!)
(19:20) "But the man that shall be unclean ... shall be cut off
... the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean."
(19:21) "It shall be a perpetual statute ... that he that sprinkleth the
water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even."
(19:22) "And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean;
and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even."
19:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
19:2This is the ordinance
of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the
children of Israel, that they bring theea red heifer without spot, wherein is no
blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
19:3
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth
without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
19:4
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood
directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
19:5
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her
dung, shall he burn:
19:6
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the
burning of the heifer.
19:7Then the priest shall
wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he
shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
19:8And he that burneth her
shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be
unclean until the even.
19:9And a man that is clean
shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in
a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of
Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
19:10
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 forever.
19:11He that toucheth the
dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
19:12He 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.
19:13Whosoever toucheth the
dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the
tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of
separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness
is yet upon him.
19:14
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the
tent, shall be unclean seven days.
19:15And every open vessel,
which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
19:16And whosoever toucheth
one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone
of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
19:17And for an unclean
person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for
sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
19:18And a clean person
shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent,
and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him
that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
19:19And the clean person
shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day:
and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
19:20But the man that shall
be unclean, and shall not purify himself,that soul shall be cut off from among the
congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath
not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
19:21And it shall be a
perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of
separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of
separation shall be unclean until even.
19:22And whatsoever the
unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it
shall be unclean until even.
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