Numbers 19:6
in Numbers 19The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
KJV
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
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This verse in Numbers 19
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Then the heifer must be burned in his sight
on Numbers 19:5-6
She is burned whole, her hide, her flesh and her blood with her dung. The priest throws cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool into the fire, the three used to cleanse a leper at Leviticus 14:4-6.
This site's exposition
cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool
Hebrews 9:19 names the scarlet wool and hyssop again at Sinai, where Moses sprinkled the book and all the people with blood and water. Matthew Henry reads the whole ceremony of these ashes through that chapter of Hebrews. Hyssop returns at verse 18 as the sprinkler.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
By this attitude he indicated that he was presenting an expiatory sacrifice, for the acceptance of which he hoped, in the grace of God, by looking to the mercy seat. Every part of it was consumed by fire except the blood used in sprinkling, and the ingredients mixed with the ashes were the same as those employed in the sprinkling of lepers (Le 14:4-7).
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְלָקַ֣ח | velakach | and he will take | H3947 → | 966 times |
| הַכֹּהֵ֗ן | hakohen | the priest | H3548 → | 750 times |
| עֵ֥ץ | ʾetz | wood of | H6086 → | 328 times |
| אֶ֛רֶז | ʾerez | cedar | H730 → | |
| וְאֵז֖וֹב | veezov | and hyssop | H231 → | |
| וּשְׁנִ֣י | usheni | and scarlet of | H8144 → | |
| תוֹלָ֑עַת | tolaat | scarlet stuff | H8438 → | |
| וְהִשְׁלִ֕יךְ | vehishlikh | and he will throw [them] | H7993 → | 125 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | into | H413 → | 5510 times |
| תּ֖וֹךְ | tokh | [the] middle of | H8432 → | 418 times |
| שְׂרֵפַ֥ת | serefat | [the] burning of | H8316 → | 13 times |
| הַפָּרָֽה׃ | haparah | the heifer | H6510 → | 26 times |
וְלָקַ֣חand he will take
velakachH3947 →966 times
הַכֹּהֵ֗ןthe priest
hakohenH3548 →750 times
עֵ֥ץwood of
ʾetzH6086 →328 times
אֶ֛רֶזcedar
ʾerezH730 →
וְאֵז֖וֹבand hyssop
veezovH231 →
וּשְׁנִ֣יand scarlet of
usheniH8144 →
תוֹלָ֑עַתscarlet stuff
tolaatH8438 →
וְהִשְׁלִ֕יךְand he will throw [them]
vehishlikhH7993 →125 times
אֶל־into
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
תּ֖וֹךְ[the] middle of
tokhH8432 →418 times
שְׂרֵפַ֥ת[the] burning of
serefatH8316 →13 times
הַפָּרָֽה׃the heifer
haparahH6510 →26 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
it leads to
- Hebrews 9:19
For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
- Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
- Hebrews 9:13–14
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,
- Numbers 19:18–20
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to…
- Hebrews 9:19
Through
Leviticus 14:4the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
it leads to
- Leviticus 14:6
And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
- Psalms 51:7
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- Leviticus 14:6
Through
Leviticus 14:49He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house;
it leads to
- Leviticus 14:4
the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
- Leviticus 14:4
Where this verse is studied
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About Numbers
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.