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.
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Gill's Exposition
And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer,.... A man, a clean priest, as the Targum of Jonathan; in later times great care was taken that the priest concerned in the burning of…
Barnes' Notes
Water of separation - In Num 8:7, the water of purification from sin is the “water of purifying.” So that which was to remedy a state of legal separation is here called “water of separation.”
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
it shall be kept i.e. the ashes, for which the Heb. word is singular, not plural.
a water of impurity] i.e. a water for the removal of impurity. Cf. -water of sin" (Num 8:7). The word niddâh,…
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