Numbers 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.
Numbers 19:6 in other translations
| BSB | The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer. |
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| WEB | The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer. |
| ASV | and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. |
| YLT | and the priest hath taken cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and hath cast unto the midst of the burning of the cow; |
| DARBY | And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer. |
| BBE | Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning. |
| Webster | And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. |
What does Numbers 19:6 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…
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…
Numbers 19:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 19:6
- Leviticus 14:4
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
- Leviticus 14:49
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
- Leviticus 14:6
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
- Psalms 51:7
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- Hebrews 9:19-23
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. …
- Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
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Context
- Numbers 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:
- Numbers 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.
- Numbers 19:7
Then 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.
Numbers 19:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Luego tomará el sacerdote palo de cedro, é hisopo, y escarlata, y lo echará en medio del fuego en que arde la vaca. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le sacrificateur prendra du bois de cèdre, et de l’hysope, et de l’écarlate, et les jettera au milieu du feu où brûle la génisse. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und der Priester soll Cedernholz und Ysop und Karmesin nehmen und es mitten in den Brand der jungen Kuh werfen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Lignum quoque cedrinum, et hyssopum, coccumque bis tinctum sacerdos mittet in flammam, quæ vaccam vorat. |