Numbers 19 · Verse 3

Numbers 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:
Numbers 19:3, King James Version

Numbers 19:3 in other translations

BSBGive it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
WEBYou shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.
ASVAnd ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
YLTand ye have given it unto Eleazar the priest, and he hath brought it out unto the outside of the camp, and hath slaughtered it before him.
DARBYand ye shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp, and one shall slaughter it before him.
BBEGive her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him.
WebsterAnd ye shall give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:

What does Numbers 19:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 19:3-6
3-6. ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest that he may bring her forth without the camp--He was the second or deputy high priest, and he was selected for this duty because the execution of it entailed temporary defilement, from which the acting high priest was to be preserved with the greatest care. It was led "forth without the camp," in accordance with the law regarding victims laden with the sins of the people, and thus typical of Christ (He 13:12; also Le 24:14). The priest was to sprinkle the blood "seven times" before--literally, "towards" or "near" the tabernacle, a description which seems to imply either that he carried a portion of the blood in a basin to the door of the tabernacle (Le 4:17), or that in the act of sprinkling he turned his face towards the sacred edifice, being disqualified through the defiling influence of this operation from approaching close to it. By this attitude he indicated that he was presenting an expiatory sacrifice, for the acceptance of which he hoped, in the grace of God, by looking to the mercy seat. Every part of it was consumed by fire except the blood used in sprinkling, and the ingredients mixed with the ashes were the same as those employed in the sprinkling of lepers (Le 14:4-7). It was a water of separation--that is, of "sanctification" for the people of Israel.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 19:1-10

The heifer was to be wholly burned. This typified the painful sufferings of our Lord Jesus, both in soul and body, as a sacrifice made by fire, to satisfy God's justice for man's sin. These ashes are said to be laid up as a purification for sin, because, though they were only to purify from ceremonial uncleanness, yet they were a type of that purification for sin which our Lord Jesus made by his death. The blood of…

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Numbers 19:3 in the original Hebrew

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וּנְתַתֶּ֣םu.ne.ta.Temand you will giveH5414
אֹתָ֔הּ'o.Tah<obj.> itH853
אֶל\־'el-toH413
אֶלְעָזָ֖ר'el.'a.ZarEleazarH499
הַכֹּהֵ֑ןha.ko.Henthe priestH3548
וְהוֹצִ֤יאve.ho.Tzi'and he will take outH3318
אֹתָהּ֙'o.Tah<obj.> itH853
אֶל\־'el-toH413
מִח֣וּץmi.Chutzfrom [the] outsideH2351
לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔הla.ma.cha.Nehof the campH4264
וְשָׁחַ֥טve.sha.Chatand someone will slaughterH7819
אֹתָ֖הּ'o.Tah<obj.> itH853
לְפָנָֽיו\׃le.fa.Nav<to> before himH6440

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Cross references for Numbers 19:3

  • Leviticus 4:12

    Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.

  • Leviticus 4:21

    And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.

  • Hebrews 13:11-13

    For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

  • Leviticus 16:27

    And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

  • Leviticus 24:14

    Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

  • Numbers 3:4

    And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.

  • Numbers 5:2

    Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

  • Leviticus 13:45-46

    And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

  • Numbers 15:36

    And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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without the camp.
5:2; 15:36; Le 4:12,21; 13:45,46; 16:27; 24:14; Heb 13:11-13

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Context

  • Numbers 19:2

    This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

  • Numbers 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:

  • Numbers 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:

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Numbers 19:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y la daréis á Eleazar el sacerdote, y él la sacará fuera del campo, y harála degollar en su presencia.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et vous la donnerez à Éléazar, le sacrificateur, et il la mènera hors du camp, et on l’égorgera devant lui.
German
Elberfelder 1871		und ihr sollt sie Eleasar, dem Priester, geben, und er soll sie vor das Lager hinausführen, und man soll sie vor ihm schlachten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		tradetisque eam Eleazaro sacerdoti, qui eductam extra castra, immolabit in conspectu omnium: