28: Prepare the ashes for the water of purification (Num 19:1-22)

The Lord asked them to prepare the ashes of a red heifer and to keep them for use in the water of purification.

πŸ‘‰ Read Numbers 19:1-22

A (              ) will be slaughtered before the (              ) outside the (              ), burned to ashes, and the ashes will be kept in a (             ) place outside the camp. It will be used to make the water of (             ). All practitioners became (              ) and needed to wash their clothes and body.

 

Anyone who touches the (            ) of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the (                 ) of the Lord. That person must be cut off from (              ).

A (              ) person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the (                ) day and thus purify him. The one who sprinkles the water also becomes unclean until (              ). And this will be a (                  ) ordinance for them.

 

Answers and Meditations

Red heifer, priest, camp, clean, purification, unclean

To avoid any unclean contamination from among the people, the procedure was done outside the camp.

The Lord asked them to prepare the ashes for purification water so they could cleanse their uncleanness anytime needed. That much the Lord is concerned about our cleanness.

 

Corpse, Tabernacle, Israel

Death is the ultimate consequence of their sins. Thus, a corpse is unclean. Anything that is caused by human sinful status will be regarded as unclean.

Because the Tabernacle of the Holy God is among them, they should keep themselves clean.

If you know that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit, you will cleanse yourself from any sort of uncleanness of this world, brokenness, and failures from their sins.

Being unclean might not be their fault, but not cleansing from uncleanness is deliberate rebellion. Thus, such a person will be cut off from God’s people.

 

Clean, seventh, evening, perpetual

 

There is another kind of purification water in Lev 14:49-52. There, the water on which the blood of a slaughtered bird dripped was used to purify a disease-infected house. Here, the water of ashes is used to cleanse a person from the uncleanness of the corpse.

In both cases, there was a sacrifice. Cedarwood, hyssop, and scarlet wool are used for both cases. 

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