Bible Strands
Numbers 19:3
Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Moses and Aaron, issuing a command regarding the red heifer introduced in the preceding verse.
The words — וּ/נְתַתּ֣ם (u./ne.ta.Tem) means "and you will give," and וְ/הוֹצִ֤יא (ve./ho.Tzi') translates as "and he will take out."
The thread — The directive to remove the animal beyond the camp boundaries aligns with Leviticus 4:12 and Leviticus 4:21, which also locate the disposal of ritual remains outside the camp.
Why it lands — The text explicitly places the slaughter outside the camp under Eleazar’s supervision, establishing a physical boundary that separates the ritual act from the dwelling community.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
Cross-references
- Leviticus 4:12 all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the ash heap.
- Leviticus 4:21 Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Leviticus 16:27 The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.
- Hebrews 13:11 Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
- Leviticus 13:45 A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
- Leviticus 24:14 “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.
- Numbers 3:4 Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.
- Numbers 5:2 “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
- Numbers 15:36 So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.