Numbers 19:3
1 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
2 “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.
Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
4 Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.
5 Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
- KJV
- 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:
- WEB
- You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.
- ASV
- And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
- DARBY
- and ye shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp, and one shall slaughter it before him.
- BLB
- And you⁺ shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring it out toward the outside of the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him.
- ÅB
- Den skal dere gi til Eleasar, presten, og han skal føre den utenfor leiren, og de skal slakte den for hans åsyn.
- OTB
- Dere skal gi den til Eleasar, presten, og den skal føres utenfor leiren og slaktes i hans nærvær.
- B1930
- Den skal I gi til Eleasar, presten, og han skal føre den utenfor leiren, og de skal slakte den for hans åsyn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 4:12
all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the ash heap.
Read in contextLeviticus 4:21
Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
Read in contextHebrews 13:11–13
Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
Read in contextLeviticus 16:27
The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.
Read in contextLeviticus 24:14
“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.
Read in contextNumbers 3:4
Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.
Read in contextNumbers 5:2
“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
Read in contextLeviticus 13:45–46
A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
Read in context