What Does Numbers 19:10 Mean?

“shall wash”

to trample; hence, to wash (properly, by stamping with the feet), whether literal (including the fulling process) or figurative

“And he that gathereth”

to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e., remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“the ashes”

ashes

“of the heifer”

a heifer

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“his clothes”

a covering, i.e., clothing

“and be unclean”

to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)

as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)

“until the even”

dusk

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“and it shall be unto the children”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

“and unto the stranger”

properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner

“that sojourneth”

properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e., sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place);

“among”

a bisection, i.e., (by implication) the center

“them for a statute”

a statute

“for ever”

properly, concealed, i.e., the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e., (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial