Numbers 19:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² They shall purify themselves with the water on the third day and on the seventh day and so be clean, but if they do not purify themselves on the third day and on the seventh day, they will not become clean.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² He shall purify himself with the water for impurity [made with the ashes of the burned heifer] on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean. But if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

Common English Bible

¹² That person must be cleansed with water on the third and seventh days to be clean. If he fails to be cleansed with water on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² shall be sprinkled from this water on the third and seventh days, and so shall he be cleansed. But if he was not sprinkled on the third day, he is not able to be cleansed on the seventh.

Numbers 19:12 Cross References

Numbers 31:19

Camp outside the camp seven days, whoever of you has killed any person or touched a corpse; purify yourselves, you and your captives, on the third and on the seventh day.

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Acts 15:9

and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.

Hosea 6:2

After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

Psalm 51:7

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Leviticus 7:17

but what is left of the flesh of the sacrifice shall be burned up on the third day.

Exodus 19:15

And he said to the people, “Prepare for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

Exodus 19:11

and prepare for the third day, because on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

Leviticus 14:7

He shall sprinkle it seven times upon the one who is to be cleansed of the defiling disease; then he shall pronounce him clean, and he shall let the living bird go into the open field.