Numbers 19:3
What does Numbers 19:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 19:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And 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:
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And 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:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and ye have given it unto Eleazar the priest, and he hath brought it out unto the outside of the camp, and hath slaughtered it before him.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And you shall deliver her to Eleazar the priest, who shall bring her forth without the camp, and shall immolate her in the sight of all:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890and ye shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp, and one shall slaughter it before him.
Context
v.2This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.
v.3This passage
v.4and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 13:45
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
- Leviticus 4:21
And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock: it is the sin-offering for the assembly.
- Leviticus 16:27
And the bullock of the sin-offering, and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
- Hebrews 13:11
For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp.
- Leviticus 4:12
even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall it be burnt.
- Numbers 3:4
And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father.
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