Numbers 19:9 - Easy To Read Version

⁹ “Then a person who is clean [254] will collect the ashes from the cow. He will put those ashes in a clean place outside the camp. These ashes will be used when people must keep a special ceremony to become clean. These ashes will also be used to remove a person’s sins.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And a man who is clean shall collect the ashes of the heifer and put them outside the camp in a clean place, and they shall be kept for the congregation of the Israelites for the water for impurity; it is a sin offering.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering.

Common English Bible

⁹ A person who is clean will gather the ashes of the cow and place them outside the camp in a clean place. They will be kept for the water of purification for the Israelite community as a purification offering.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Then a clean man shall gather the ashes of the cow, and he shall pour them out beyond the camp, in a very pure place, so that they may be preserved for the multitude of the sons of Israel, and for the water of aspersion, because the cow was burned for sin.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the cow, and shall pour them forth without the camp in a most clean place: that they may be reserved for the multitude of the children of Israel, and for a water of aspersion: because the cow was burnt for sin.

Numbers 19:9 Cross References

Leviticus 15:20

Also, everything the woman lies on during her monthly time of bleeding will be unclean. And everything she sits on during that time will be unclean.

Zechariah 13:1

But at that time, a new spring of water will be opened for David’s family and for the other people living in Jerusalem. That fountain will be to wash away their sins and to make the people pure.

Numbers 19:13

If a person touches a dead body, then that person is unclean. If that person stays unclean and then goes to the Holy Tent, [257] then the Holy Tent becomes unclean. So that person must be separated from the people of Israel. If the special water is not thrown on an unclean person, then that person will stay unclean.

Numbers 19:17

“So you must use the ashes from the burnt cow to make that person clean [259] again. Pour fresh water [260] over the ashes into a jar.

Numbers 19:18

A clean person must take a hyssop [261] branch and dip it into the water. Then he must sprinkle it over the tent, the dishes, and the people who were in the tent. You must do this to anyone that touches a dead person’s body. You must do this to anyone that touches the body of someone killed in war and to anyone that touches a grave or the bones from a dead person.

Numbers 19:3

Give that cow to Eleazar the priest. Eleazar will take the cow outside the camp and kill it there.

Numbers 19:8

The person who burns that cow must wash himself and his clothes in water. He will be unclean until evening.

Numbers 6:12

This means that person must again give himself to the Lord for another time of separation. That person must bring a one-year-old male lamb. He must give this lamb as a guilt offering. All of the days that he was separated are forgotten. The man must start over with a new time of separation. This must be done because he touched a dead body during his first time of separation.

Numbers 8:7

This is what you should do to make them pure. Sprinkle the special water from the sin offering [126] on them. This water will make them pure. Then they must shave their bodies and wash their clothes. This will make their bodies clean.

Numbers 9:13

But any person who is able must celebrate Passover at the right time. If he is clean [145] and he is not away on a trip, then he has no excuse. If that person does not celebrate Passover at the right time, then he must be separated from his people. He is guilty and must be punished! Why? Because he did not give the Lord his gift at the right time.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Dear friends, we have these promises \{from God\}. So we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes our body or our soul unclean. We should try to become perfect in the way we live, because we respect God.

Hebrews 7:26

So Jesus is the kind of high priest {\cf2\super [73]} that we need. He is holy. {\cf2\super [74]} He has no sin in him. He is pure and not influenced by sinners. And he is raised above the heavens.

Hebrews 9:13

The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a cow were sprinkled on those people who were no longer pure \{enough to enter that place of worship\}. That blood and those ashes made those people pure again—but only their bodies.