Numbers 19:3

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

1The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2‘This is another rule in the Lord's law that I am telling to you: Tell the Israelites that they must bring to you a young red cow. It must not have anything wrong with it. And nobody must have put a yoke on it. They must take the cow outside the camp. They must kill it and then give it to Eleazar the priest. 4Eleazar must take some of the blood from the cow. He must splash it seven times in front of the Tent of Meeting. 5Then they must burn the whole cow while Eleazar is watching. They must burn its body with the skin, meat, blood and everything that is inside its body.

Numbers 19:3 word by word

וּנְתַתֶּ֣ם אֹתָ֔הּ אֶל־אֶלְעָזָ֖ר הַכֹּהֵ֑ן וְהוֹצִ֤יא אֹתָהּ֙ אֶל־מִח֣וּץ לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה וְשָׁחַ֥ט אֹתָ֖הּ לְפָנָֽיו׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And ye shall giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• her unto Eleazarאֶלְעָזָר'el‛âzâr · EleazarH499
• the priestכֹּהֵןkôhên · priestH3548
• that he may bring her forthיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: sendH3318
• withoutחוּץchûts chûts · outsideH2351
• the campמַחֲנֶהmachăneh · campH4264
• shall slayשָׁחַטshâchaţ · to slaughterH7819
• her beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440

Cross-references for Numbers 19:3

• Numbers 5:2‘Speak to the Israelites. They must send any person with a disease of the skin away from the camp. Or somebody may have a disease that causes pus to come out of his body. Any person like that is not clean. Anyone who has touched a dead person is also not clean. Send those people out of the camp too.
• Numbers 15:36So the people took the man outside the camp. They threw stones at him until he died. That was what the Lord had told Moses to do.
• Leviticus 4:12The priest must take all the pieces to a clean place outside the camp. He must put them on the ashes and he must burn them on a wood fire.
• Leviticus 13:45A person with this disease must tear his clothes. He must not comb his hair. He must cover the lower part of his face. He must shout, “I am not clean.”
• Leviticus 16:27Aaron had killed a bull and a goat. He took their blood into the Most Holy Place to make atonement. Someone must carry their dead bodies outside the camp. He must burn them. That man must burn the skin, the meat and the inside parts.
• Leviticus 24:14‘Take the man outside the camp. All the people who heard him speak must put a hand on him. All the people must throw stones at him until he is dead.
• Hebrews 13:11In the old agreement, the leader of the priests brings the blood from the animal sacrifices into the Most Holy Place. He does that so that God will forgive the sins of the people. But they take the bodies of those animals away from there. They burn them outside the town.

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