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:
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Gill's Exposition
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest,.... The son of Aaron; the Sagan of the priests, as the Targum of Jonathan calls him, the second or deputy priest; it was not to be given to Aaron, that…
Barnes' Notes
The work would necessarily require a priest; yet as it rendered him unclean for the day Num 19:22, the high priest was relieved from performing it. Without the camp - The defilement was viewed as…
We have here the divine appointment concerning the solemn burning of a red heifer to ashes, and the preserving of the ashes, that of them might be made, not a beautifying, but a purifying, water, for…
Cambridge Bible
and one shall bring her forth Probably the person who is to kill her; not Eleazar.
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