The Red Heifer
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke. Deu 21:3Lev 22:20-251Pe 1:191Sa 6:7Php 2:6-81Pe 2:22Heb 7:26Heb 9:10 Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence. Lev 4:12Lev 4:21Heb 13:11-13Lev 16:27Lev 13:45-46Lev 24:14Num 15:36Num 3:4
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. Lev 16:14Lev 4:17Lev 4:6Lev 16:19Heb 9:13-141Pe 1:2Heb 12:24 Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung. Exo 29:14Lev 4:11-12Isa 53:10Lev 4:21Psa 22:14 The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer. Lev 14:4Lev 14:49Lev 14:6Psa 51:7Heb 9:19-23Isa 1:18
Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. Lev 11:25Lev 15:5Lev 11:40Lev 14:8-9Lev 16:26-28Lev 22:6Num 19:19Num 19:8 The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin. Heb 9:13Num 19:13Num 19:20-212Co 5:212Co 7:1Heb 7:26Lev 15:20Num 19:18 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. Col 3:11Exo 12:49Num 15:15-16Num 19:19Num 19:7-8Rom 3:29-30
Purification of the Unclean
Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days. Num 5:2Num 31:19Lev 21:1Num 19:16Num 9:10Num 9:6Hag 2:13Lam 4:14 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. Num 31:191Co 15:3-4Act 15:9Exo 19:11Exo 19:15Ezk 36:25Hos 6:2Lev 7:17 Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him. Lev 15:31Lev 22:3Lev 7:20Num 19:9Num 8:7Heb 10:29Heb 2:2-3Jhn 8:24
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, and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean. Lev 11:32Lev 14:36Num 31:20
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. Mat 23:27Num 19:11Num 31:19Luk 11:44Ezk 39:11-16
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 1over them. Num 19:9Gen 26:19Jhn 4:10-11Jhn 7:38Rev 7:17Sng 4:15 Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain. Ezk 36:25-27Heb 9:14Num 19:9Psa 51:71Co 1:30Jhn 15:2-3Jhn 17:17Jhn 17:19
The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean. 1Jn 1:7Heb 10:22Ezk 36:25Eph 5:25-27Lev 14:9Num 19:121Jn 2:1-2Gen 2:2 But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. Num 19:13Gen 17:14Mrk 16:162Pe 3:14Act 13:39-41Num 15:30Rev 22:11Rom 2:4-5
This is a permanent statute for the people: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening. Heb 9:13-14Heb 10:4Heb 7:19Heb 9:10Lev 11:25Lev 11:40Lev 16:26-28 Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.” Hag 2:13Lev 15:5Lev 7:19Lev 5:2Mat 15:19-20Mrk 7:21-23