Numbers Chapter 19 Lets You Know That Not All in the Hebrew Bible Are Within the Grasp of Human Understanding

Purity – BIG DEAL!

Yes indeed. Because G-d commanded it.

Jewish sages admit that this is one of those areas that humans are limited to comprehend – the Red Cow.

Admirable quality of orthodox Jews who are honest enough to tell that this decree is beyond human understanding.

Unlike Christian church founders, elders, priests or preachers who will force its way to claim knowledgeable by weaving out-of-context explanation to link it with J*sus or the Trinity or Triune G-d of their own.

“The Red Cow”

This is the decree of the Torah, which Hashem has commanded, saying: Speak to the Children of Israel, and they shall take to you a completely red cow, which is without blemish, and upon which a yoke has not come.
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Elazar the Kohen shall take some of its blood with his forefinger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.
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The Kohen shall immerse his clothing and immerse himself in water, and afterwards he may enter the camp; and the Kohen shall remain contaminated until evening.
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Whoever touches the corpse of any human being shall be contaminated for seven days.
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This is the teaching regarding a man who would die in a tent: Anything that enters the tent and anything that is in the tent shall be contaminated for seven days.
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On the open field: Anyone who touches one slain by the sword, or one that died, or a human bone, or a grave, shall be contaminated for seven days.
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But a man who becomes contaminated and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, …
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This shall be for them an eternal decree, …
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Anything that the contaminated one may touch shall become contaminated, and the person who touches him shall become contaminated until evening.
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1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
2 This is the statute of the Torah which the Lord commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel and have them take for you a perfectly red unblemished cow, upon which no yoke was laid.
3 And you shall give it to Eleazar the kohen, and he shall take it outside the camp and slaughter it in his presence.
4 Eleazar the kohen shall take from its blood with his finger and sprinkle it toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.
5 The cow shall then be burned in his presence; its hide, its flesh, its blood, with its dung he shall burn it.
6 The kohen shall take a piece of cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson wool, and cast them into the burning of the cow.
7 The kohen shall wash his garments and bathe his flesh in water, and then he may enter the camp, and the kohen shall be unclean until evening.
8 The one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water and cleanse his body in water, and he shall be unclean until evening.
9 A ritually clean person shall gather the cow’s ashes and place them outside the camp in a clean place, and It shall be as a keepsake for the congregation of the children of Israel for sprinkling water, [used] for cleansing.
10 The one who gathers the cow’s ashes shall wash his clothes, and he shall be unclean until evening. It shall be an everlasting statute for the children of Israel and for the proselyte who resides in their midst.
11 Anyone touching the corpse of a human soul shall become unclean for seven days.
12 On the third and seventh days, he shall cleanse himself with it, so that he can become clean. But if he does not sprinkle himself with it on the third and seventh days, he shall not become clean.
13 Whoever touches the corpse of a human soul which dies, and he does not cleanse himself, he has defiled the Mishkan of the Lord, and that soul shall be cut off from Israel. For the sprinkling water was not sprinkled on him, so he remains unclean, and his uncleanness remains upon him.
14 This is the law: if a man dies in a tent, anyone entering the tent and anything in the tent shall be unclean for seven days.
15 Any open vessel which has no seal fastened around it becomes unclean.
16 Anyone who touches one slain by the sword, or a corpse, or a human bone or a grave, in an open field, he shall be unclean for seven days.
17 They shall take for that unclean person from the ashes of the burnt purification offering, and it shall be placed in a vessel [filled] with spring water.
18 A ritually clean person shall take the hyssop and dip it into the water and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, and on the people who were in it, and on anyone who touched the bone, the slain person, the corpse, or the grave.
19 The ritually clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day, and he shall cleanse him on the seventh day, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he shall become ritually clean in the evening.
20 If a person becomes unclean and does not cleanse himself, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation, for he has defiled the Sanctuary of the Lord; the sprinkling waters were not sprinkled upon him. He is unclean.
21 This shall be for them as a perpetual statute, and the one who sprinkles the sprinkling waters shall wash his clothes, and one who touches the sprinkling waters shall be unclean until evening.
22 Whatever the unclean one touches shall become unclean, and anyone touching him shall be unclean until evening.