Red Heifer, The

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Numbers 19:2Torrey To be without spot or blemish

  This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

• Numbers 19:3Torrey To ge given to Eleazar the second priest to offer

  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:

• Numbers 19:4Torrey Blood of, sprinkled seven times before the tabernacle

  And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:

• Numbers 19:5Torrey Entire of, to be burned

  And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

• Numbers 19:6Torrey Cedar, hyssop, burned with

  And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

• Numbers 19:7Torrey COMMUNICATED UNCLEANNESS TO — The priest that offered her

  Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

• Numbers 19:8Torrey COMMUNICATED UNCLEANNESS TO — The man that burned her

  And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

• Numbers 19:9Torrey Ashes of, collected and mixed with water for purification

  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.

• Numbers 19:10Torrey COMMUNICATED UNCLEANNESS TO — The man who gathered the ashes

  And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

• Numbers 19:11–22Torrey Ashes of, collected and mixed with water for purification

  ¶ He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 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.…

• Hebrews 9:12–14Torrey A type of Christ

  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the…

• Hebrews 9:13Torrey Could only purify the flesh

  For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: