Numbers 19:21 - Revised Standard Version CI

²¹ And it shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And it shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity [upon another] shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them: and he that sprinkleth the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he that toucheth the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.

Common English Bible

²¹ This will be a permanent regulation for them. The one who sprinkles the water of purification will wash his own clothes. Anyone who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ This precept shall be an everlasting ordinance. Likewise, the one who has sprinkled the waters shall wash his garments. All who will have touched the waters of expiation shall be unclean until evening.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that sprinkled the water shall wash his garments. Every one that shall touch the waters of expiation shall be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19:21 Cross References

Exodus 27:21

In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute for ever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.

Leviticus 11:25

and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:40

and he who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; he also who carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 18:23

But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

Numbers 19:10

And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. And this shall be to the people of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourns among them, a perpetual statute.

Numbers 19:7

Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until evening.

Numbers 19:8

He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

Hebrews 10:4

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect); on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

Hebrews 9:10

but deal only with food and drink and various ablutions, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.