Quotes about Ritual
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
- Numbers 19:1
Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
- Numbers 19:3
Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 19:4
Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.
- Numbers 19:5
The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
- Numbers 19:6
The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.
- Numbers 19:10
Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.
- Numbers 19:11
He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.
- Numbers 19:12
This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,
- Numbers 19:14
and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.
- Numbers 19:15
Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
- Numbers 19:16
For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
- Numbers 19:17