American Standard Version
Numbers 19:3
3And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
Numbers 19:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
- New International Version (NIV)Give it to Eleazar the priest; it is to be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it outside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him;
Context of Numbers 19:3
1And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke. And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: 4and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. 5And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
Read all of Numbers 19Numbers 19:3 word by word
וּנְתַתֶּ֣ם אֹתָ֔הּ אֶל־אֶלְעָזָ֖ר הַכֹּהֵ֑ן וְהוֹצִ֤יא אֹתָהּ֙ אֶל־מִח֣וּץ לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה וְשָׁחַ֥ט אֹתָ֖הּ לְפָנָֽיו׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Numbers 19:3
- Numbers 5:2Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the dead:
- Numbers 15:36And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 4:12even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall it be burnt.
- Leviticus 13:45And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
- Leviticus 16:27And the bullock of the sin-offering, and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
- Leviticus 24:14Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
- Hebrews 13:11For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp.
Commentaries on Numbers 19:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The work would necessarily require a priest; yet as it rendered him unclean for the day Numbers 19:22, the high priest was relieved from performing it. Without the camp - The defilement was viewed as transferred to the victim that was to be offered for its removal. Under these circumstances the victim, like the defiled persons themselves, would be removed outside the camp. The particular pollution to be remedied by this ordinance was the indirect one…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-5To protect Aaron’s holy status, Eleazar had to perform the red heifer offering because it caused ceremonial impurity (see Leviticus 21:10–12). The red heifer ceremony differed from the regular sacrifice (compare Leviticus 4:3–12).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-63-6. ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest that he may bring her forth without the camp--He was the second or deputy high priest, and he was selected for this duty because the execution of it entailed temporary defilement, from which the acting high priest was to be preserved with the greatest care. It was led "forth without the camp," in accordance with the law regarding victims laden with the sins of the people, and thus typical of Christ (He 13:12…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Numbers 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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