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Annual Reading Schedule - Torah Given Through Mosheh - Week 36 - Lewites' Inheritance & Red Heifer (Numbers 16:41-20:13)

Reading Questions

  1. What was the sign or token for the rebels and why?
  2. Who is joined to Aharon (Aaron) and his sons and what are they to do and not do?
  3. Who is not to come near the priests and when?
  4. What must be ransomed and for how much?
  5. What is the portion and inheritance of Aharon (Aaron) and his sons?
  6. Who gets the tithe and what do they do with the tithe?
  7. What is the water for uncleanness used for?
  8. How long is someone unclean for when touching a dead body?
  9. What is needed for the water for uncleanness?
  10. What is the cleansing process for someone who touched a dead body?
  11. What happens if someone does not go through the cleansing process?
  12. What is the law for when someone dies in a tent and what can we do today in consideration of this?
  13. What is the law for dead bodies in an open field?
  14. What is the cleansing process for becoming clean after becoming unclean through a dead body in a tent, open field, grave, etc., and what part of this can we do today?
  15. What is the penalty for not being cleansed from defilements from a dead body in a tent open field grave etc. and why?
  16. What happens when someone unclean from one of these things mentioned in Numbers 19 touches something?
  17. What was Mosheh (Moses) commanded to do that he did not, why did he not do it, and what was the penalty?

Reading Notes

  • In the past I had felt that it was not clear to me in Numbers 19:22 if the touching mentioned in the last part of the verse is referring to a person touching a person, or a person touching the item that became unclean through the touching of the unclean. While it may be possible that it is actually saying someone can become unclean by touching an item that was made unclean through being touched by someone defiled for a being, I have now come to another possible and likely explanation. Now, I believe it is likely that the "unclean being" mentioned in Numbers 19:22 may actually be, and probably is referring to, "the one who sprinkles the water for uncleanness" in verse 21. In context, verse 21 tells us the one doing the sprinkling also ends up becoming unclean himself, but only until evening of that day when he touched the water for uncleanness. So, it is possible that verse 22 is basically saying that if the one who did the sprinkling touches something it becomes unclean. Also, the word "it" is not necessarily needed as part of the translation. So the end of verse 22 might just say, "And the being who touches is unclean until evening." The being who touches what? Maybe the water for uncleanness. Maybe the end of Numbers 19:22 is just re-iterating that the one doing the sprinkling who touches the water for uncleanness is unclean until evening. I consider that to be the most likely explanation of Numbers 19:22, although I leave open the possibility in my mind of other understandings related to the one defiled for a being also.
  • The first version of the Ancient Hebrew Research Center Revised Mechanical Translation (not the current version) shows the name Mir'yam to mean "Bitter Sea". It is interesting to note that after Mir'yam (Bitter Sea) died, they had no "water" (Numbers 20:1-2). The current version does not put the meaning of names directly in the text as the first version did.
  • It appears the garments washed in Numbers 19:19 would be referring specifically to the ones worn while becoming unclean through a dead body, grave, etc. but possibly also any others worn during that seven day period. If Numbers 19:22 was referring to the one defiled for a being, then perhaps also any garments they touched at all, but as previously stated, I'm not sure that's what Numbers 19:22 means since Numbers 19:22 might actually be referring to things touched by the one doing the sprinkling, not the one being sprinkled who was defiled due to a dead body.
  • Note the Messianic connection of water coming out of the rock and how we receive the Set-Apart Spirit, peace, and righteousness through Messiah (see below verses).
  • A brother in prison (who was since released from prison) shared this thought: Mosheh struck the rock the first time and water came out, but the second time he was commanded to "speak" to the rock; Yahushua was struck the first time He came, but when He comes the second time, we will speak with/to Him.

Related Verses

Mosheh Striking Rock: Psalms 106:32-33
Water From The Rock Related To Peace, Righteousness, & The Set-Apart Spirit Which We Are Able To Receive Through Messiah: Judges 15:19, Psalms 36:7-10, 78:15-16, 35, 105:41, 114:8, Isaiah 44:3, 48:18-22, 66:12, Nehemiah 9:15, 20, Amos 5:24, Mark 1:8, John 3:5, 1 Corinthians 10:4, 1 John 5:5-15, Revelation 22:17
Passover Law When Defiled By Dead Body: Numbers 9
Sacrificing the Passover & Eating Contrary to What is Written: 2 Chronicles 30
Prophesy of Sprinkling of Clean Water For Cleansing: Ezekiel 36:25