And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
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Gill's Exposition
And for an unclean person,.... Defiled by any of the above means:
they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin; from the place where they were laid up for this use; See…
One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to insure early burial, and to correct a practice not uncommon in the East, of leaving the deal…
Directions are here given concerning the use and application of the ashes which were prepared for purification. they were laid up to be laid out; and therefore, though now one place would serve to…
Cambridge Bible
the sin-offering The word is used in the same sense as in Num 19:19.
running water Water fresh from a running stream. This is more explicit than the former account, in which (Num 19:19) the mixing of…
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