5 While he watches, the heifer is to be burned-its hide, flesh, blood and intestines.

Other Translations of Numbers 19:5

King James Version

5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

English Standard Version

5 And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.

The Message

5 "Then under Eleazar's supervision burn the cow, the whole thing - hide, meat, blood, even its dung.

New King James Version

5 Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight: its hide, its flesh, its blood, and its offal shall be burned.

New Living Translation

5 As Eleazar watches, the heifer must be burned-its hide, meat, blood, and dung.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Numbers 19:5

Commentary on Numbers 19:1-10

(Read Numbers 19:1-10)

The heifer was to be wholly burned. This typified the painful sufferings of our Lord Jesus, both in soul and body, as a sacrifice made by fire, to satisfy God's justice for man's sin. These ashes are said to be laid up as a purification for sin, because, though they were only to purify from ceremonial uncleanness, yet they were a type of that purification for sin which our Lord Jesus made by his death. The blood of Christ is laid up for us in the word and sacraments, as a fountain of merit, to which by faith we may have constant recourse, for cleansing our consciences.