The Water of Separation
(
Numbers 19)
I. This law provided for cleansing after contact with a dead body, bone or grave. Jesus alluded to the defilement by a grave in His poignant rebuke of the Scribes and Pharisees.
LUK 11:44.
A. The cleansing was primarily ceremonial as a condition to restoration to the congregation
after defilement, a purification for sin (v. 9).
B. As with certain other such ordinances (e.g., the law of leprosy,
LEV 13-14), there were
also health benefits. c/w
EXO 15:26.
C. The Egy...