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Numbers 19:10-12
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Numbers 19:10-12
New English Translation
10 The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer must wash his clothes and be ceremonially unclean until evening. This will be a permanent ordinance both for the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them.
Purification from Uncleanness
11 “‘Whoever touches[a] the corpse[b] of any person[c] will be ceremonially unclean[d] seven days. 12 He must purify himself[e] with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean.
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- Numbers 19:11 tn The form is the participle with the article functioning as a substantive: “the one who touches.”
- Numbers 19:11 tn Heb “the dead.”
- Numbers 19:11 tn The expression is full: לְכָל־נֶפֶשׁ אָדָם (lekhol nefesh ʾadam)—of any life of a man, i.e., of any person.
- Numbers 19:11 tn The verb is a perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; it follows only the participle used as the subject, but since the case is hypothetical and therefore future, this picks up the future time. The adjective “ceremonially” is supplied in the translation as a clarification.
- Numbers 19:12 tn The verb is the Hitpael of חָטָא (khataʾ), a verb that normally means “to sin.” But the Piel idea in many places is “to cleanse; to purify.” This may be explained as a privative use (“to un-sin” someone, meaning cleanse) or denominative (“make a sin offering for someone”). It is surely connected to the purification offering, and so a sense of purify is what is wanted here.
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