Numbers 19:1-22
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: “This is a requirement of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke. Give it to Eleazar the priest; it is to be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence. Then Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting. While he watches, the heifer is to be burned—its hide, flesh, blood and intestines. The priest is to take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer. After that, the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water. He may then come into the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean till evening. The man who burns it must also wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he too will be unclean till evening.
The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he too will be unclean till evening.
Whoever touches a human corpse will be unclean for seven days.
For the unclean person, put some ashes from the burned purification offering into a jar and pour fresh water over them. Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.
The man who sprinkles the water of cleansing must also wash his clothes, and anyone who touches the water of cleansing will be unclean till evening. Anything that an unclean person touches becomes unclean, and anyone who touches it becomes unclean till evening.
Why?
Unclean people can not worship the Lord, so who is called ceremonially unclean. It needs the ceremonial procedure to clean it.
Touching the corpse may touch some disease that affects our health, so it needs to clean the clothes and make a clean ceremony through the priest.
These procedures remind us that the Lord is Holy, so everyone who comes to worship the Lord should be Holy, and the minister may pray or sprinkle water or oil to make the ceremony clean.
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19章處理可拉事件後的影響與處理。犯律法的罪要獻贖罪祭，要用血。染到不潔淨與罪有關，而是有潔淨的條例，即潔淨的水來潔淨。
本章說明如何預備潔淨的水。不潔淨的人藉著這個水，來潔淨，才能親近神。類似贖罪祭的做法。
第一類因為執行神吩咐工作任務的人。通常比較簡單，當天洗衣、洗澡就好了。他去處理別人的問題自己要小心，要去處理。須要恢復處理別人問題的人要謹慎。
處理不潔淨的人，如碰到屍體等。除了撒潔淨水以外還要隔離7天。好好反省自己，調整自己的腳步與神的關係。第三類是第三天不願意被撒水的，無法潔淨，要被剪除。人不要驕傲。
現在潔淨潔淨與我們現在有什麼關係?人與物和罪的關係，受到罪的影響，受到世俗的影響，雖然沒有做犯罪的事，但是已經在罪惡的環境中，被世俗力量所影響。我們的服事，要在事先預備潔淨自己，預備自己心的態度。
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How?
Keep us living in Holy behavior, it is not close to the sinners but keep our heart mind, and behavior closer to the Lord.
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