the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 .
spake. See note on Numbers 1:1 .

ordinance = statute. The whole clause = Figure of speech Pleonasm ( App-6 ), for emphasizing the lesson of the red heifer.
children = sons.
bring = take. This is the third of three events recorded during the punishment wanderings. See note on "while", Numbers 15:32 .
a red heifer. Christ, the Antitype.
without spot = without defect. Compare the Antitype. Hebrews 9:14 .
no blemish. Compare 1 Peter 1:19 .

without the camp. Compare the Antitype. Hebrews 13:12 .

tabernacle = tent. Hebrew. 'ohel. App-40 .

burn. Hebrew. saraph. See App-43 .

in water. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, omit these words. Compare Leviticus 16:28 .

man. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14 . Compare the antitype, Joseph of Arimathea. Matthew 27:57-60 . Luke 23:50-53 . Joh 19:38-42 .
sin. See App-44 .

body = soul. Hebrew. nephesh. Literally "the dead nephesh of". App-13 .
man = Hebrew. 'adam. App-14 .

third . . . seventh. Compare the Antitype. Hebrews 9:14 . The numbers significant. See App-10 .
the = on the.

body = soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13 .
tabernacle = habitation. Hebrew. mishkan. See App-40 .

is = "it [is]".

dead body. Hebrew. bemeth, no word for body = one dead, as in Numbers 19:18 , not Numbers 19:11 and Numbers 19:13 .

ashes = dust.
sin. See App-44 .
running = living. Not stagnant.

person = Hebrew. 'Ish. App-14 .
persons = souls. Hebrew. nephesh.

wash. The common rite. See Leviticus 11:25 ; Leviticus 14:8 , Leviticus 14:9 , &c.
himself = his flesh, as in Leviticus 15:16