This is the ritual law that יהוה has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid.
Another party who is pure shall gather up the ashes of the cow and deposit them outside the camp in a pure place, to be kept for water of lustration ” for the Israelite community. It is for purgation.
The one who gathers up the ashes of the cow shall also wash those clothes and be impure until evening. This shall be a permanent law for the Israelites and for the strangers who reside among them.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וכבס
88
האסף
146
אתאפר
682
הפרה
290
אתבגדיו
426
וטמא
56
עדהערב
351
והיתה
426
לבני
92
ישראל
541
ולגר
239
הגר
208
בתוכם
468
לחקת
538
עולם
146
Numbers 19:11
Gematria: 2053
הנגעבמתלכלנפשאדםוטמאשבעתימים
Those Those Heb. impersonal sing., taken as a collective and rendered in the plural. who touch the corpse of any human being shall be impure for seven days.
They shall purify themselves with [the ashes] on the third day and on the seventh day, and then be pure; if they fail to purify themselves on the third and seventh days, they shall not be pure.
Those who touch a corpse, the body of a person who has died, and do not purify themselves, defile יהוה’s Tabernacle; those persons shall be cut off from Israel. Since the water of lustration was not dashed on them, they remain impure; their impurity is still upon them.
Another party who is pure shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle on the tent and on all the vessels and people who were there, or on the one who touched the bones or the person who was killed or died naturally or the grave.
The pure person shall sprinkle it upon the impure person on the third day and on the seventh day, thus purifying that person by the seventh day. [The one being purified] shall then wash those clothes and bathe in water—and at nightfall shall be pure.
If any party who has become impure fails to undergo purification, that person shall be cut off from the congregation for having defiled יהוה’s sanctuary. The water of lustration was not dashed on that person, who is impure.
That shall be for them a law for all time. Further, the one who sprinkled the water of lustration shall wash those clothes; and whoever touches the water of lustration shall be impure until evening.
Word-by-Word Analysis
והיתה
426
להם
75
לחקת
538
עולם
146
ומזה
58
מיהנדה
114
יכבס
92
בגדיו
25
והנגע
134
במי
52
הנדה
64
יטמא
60
עדהערב
351
Numbers 19:22
Gematria: 2613
וכלאשריגעבוהטמאיטמאוהנפשהנגעתתטמאעדהערבפ
Whatever that impure person touches shall be impure; and the person who touches the impure one shall be impure until evening.