One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.
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One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.
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And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
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And the heifer shall be burnt in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burnt.
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Passages linked to Numbers 19:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 29:14 But the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 4:11-12 He shall carry the bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung —all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out.
- Leviticus 4:21 He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Psalms 22:14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.
- Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 19:5 And [one] shall burn the heifer in…
Num 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:
Ver. 5. Shall he burn.] To set forth Christ’s ardent love and bitter sufferings. Love itself is a passion, and delights to express itself by suffering for the party beloved.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To signify the sharp and grievous sufferings of Christ…
To signify the sharp and grievous sufferings of Christ for our sins.
Her blood; all of it but what was spent in sprinkling.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And one shall burn the heifer in his sight,....…
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight,.... Another priest, as the Targum of Jonathan, Eleazar looking on, as that expresses it; the Jews say (g), that when the priest came to the mount of Olives, accompanied by the elders of Israel, before he burnt the cow, he dipped himself in a dipping place there; and the wood being laid there in order, wood of cedar, ash, fir, and fig trees, made in the form of a tower, with holes opened in it (to put in the fire, and that it might burn the quicker), and its aspect being to the west, he bound the cow, and laid her upon the pile, with her head to the south, and her face to the west; and then having slain it, and sprinkled its blood, as before related, he set fire to it by the help of some small wood: the burning of it may signify the dolorous sufferings of Christ, when the wrath of God was poured forth like fire upon him; the same was signified by roasting the passover lamb:
her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn; which may denote the extent of Christ's sufferings, reaching to all parts of his body, skin, flesh, and blood, and the shame and reproach that attended them, signified by dung; as well as how impure and accursed he was accounted when he was made sin for his people, bore their sins and suffered for them, even not in body only, but in his soul also; for his soul as well as his body were made an offering for sin.
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(g) Misn. Parah, c. 3. sect. 7, 8, 9.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Burn the heifer - To signify the sharp and…
Burn the heifer - To signify the sharp and grievous sufferings of Christ for our sins. Her blood - All of it, but what was spent in sprinkling.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 19:5-6. One shall burn the heifer in his…
Num 19:5-6. One shall burn the heifer in his sight — This typified the extreme sufferings of our Lord, both in soul and body, as a sacrifice made by fire. Cedar-wood, hyssop, and scarlet — These were used in the cleansing of lepers, (Lev 14:6-7,) and were all here burned, and, as it were, offered to God, that they might be sanctified to this holy use in future.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. Shall burn the heifer — The burning was…
5. Shall burn the heifer — The burning was not the means adopted to dispose of the victim in a fitting manner; it must have had a svmbolical significance looking toward expiation.
And her blood — This, instead of being poured at the foot of the altar, was to be burned, in order to strengthen the ashes with its incombustible ingredients. Lev_4:12.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain One shall burn the heifer. See on Exo_29:14. And…
One shall burn the heifer. See on Exo_29:14. And her blood. In all other cases the blood was poured away beside the altar, because in the blood was the life, and the life was given to God in exchange for the life of the offerer. This great truth, which underlay all animal sacrifices, was represented in this case by the sprinkling towards the sanctuary. The rest of the blood was burnt with the carcass, either because outside the holy precincts there was no consecrated earth to receive the blood, or in order that the virtue of the blood might in a figure pass into the ashes and add to their efficacy.
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