Numbers 19:6
New International Version
The priest is to take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.

New Living Translation
Eleazar the priest must then take a stick of cedar, a hyssop branch, and some scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire where the heifer is burning.

English Standard Version
And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.

Berean Standard Bible
The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.

King James Bible
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

New King James Version
And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer.

New American Standard Bible
And the priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet material, and throw it into the midst of the burning heifer.

NASB 1995
The priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet material and cast it into the midst of the burning heifer.

NASB 1977
‘And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet material, and cast it into the midst of the burning heifer.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet material and cast it into the midst of the burning heifer.

Amplified Bible
The priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet [material] and cast them into the midst of the burning heifer.

Christian Standard Bible
The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson yarn, and throw them onto the fire where the cow is burning.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson yarn, and throw them onto the fire where the cow is burning.

American Standard Version
and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the Priest shall take wood of cedar and hyssop and dye of scarlet and shall throw it within the burning of the heifer.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet wool, and they shall cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

Contemporary English Version
A priest is to throw a stick of cedar wood, a hyssop branch, and a piece of red yarn into the fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The priest shall also take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet twice dyed, and cast it into the flame, with which the cow is consumed.

English Revised Version
and the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The priest will take some cedar wood, a hyssop sprig, and some red yarn and throw them onto the burning cow.

Good News Translation
Then he is to take some cedar wood, a sprig of hyssop, and a red cord and throw them into the fire.

International Standard Version
Then the priest is to take some cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet material and throw it into the middle of the burning heifer.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

Literal Standard Version
and the priest has taken cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and has cast [them] into the midst of the burning of the cow;

Majority Standard Bible
The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.

New American Bible
and the priest will take cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire in which the heifer is being burned.

NET Bible
And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning.

New Revised Standard Version
The priest shall take cedarwood, hyssop, and crimson material, and throw them into the fire in which the heifer is burning.

New Heart English Bible
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

World English Bible
The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.

Young's Literal Translation
and the priest hath taken cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and hath cast unto the midst of the burning of the cow;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Red Heifer
5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung. 6The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer. 7Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.…

Cross References
Hebrews 9:19
For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

Leviticus 14:4
the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.


Treasury of Scripture

And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.

Leviticus 14:6,49
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: …

Psalm 51:7
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

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(6) And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet.--According to the Targum of Jonathan, another priest was to do this, but the reference seems to be to Eleazar. Cedar-wood may be regarded as the emblem of fragrance and incorruption; hyssop as the emblem of purification; and scarlet (or crimson) wool or cloth may be regarded as emblematical both of sin, which is compared to it in Isaiah 1:18, and also of the blood, which is the life, the shedding of which was needful in order to the remission of sin. All of these were used in the purification of the leper (Leviticus 14:4). In both cases there appears to be a typical reference to the sprinkling of the blood of Christ. (See. Hebrews 9:13-14).

Verse 6. - Cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. See on Leviticus 14:4-6 for the significance of these things. The antiseptic and medicinal qualities of the cedar (Juniperus oxycedrus) and hyssop (probably Capparis spinosa) make their use readily intelligible; the symbolism of the "scarlet" is much more obscure.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The priest
הַכֹּהֵ֗ן (hak·kō·hên)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3548: Priest

is to take
וְלָקַ֣ח (wə·lā·qaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

cedar
אֶ֛רֶז (’e·rez)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 730: A cedar tree

wood,
עֵ֥ץ (‘êṣ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6086: Tree, trees, wood

hyssop,
וְאֵז֖וֹב (wə·’ê·zō·wḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 231: Hyssop

and scarlet wool
וּשְׁנִ֣י (ū·šə·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8144: Crimson, the insect, its color, stuff dyed with it

and throw
וְהִשְׁלִ֕יךְ (wə·hiš·lîḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7993: To throw out, down, away

them
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

onto
תּ֖וֹךְ (tō·wḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

the burning
שְׂרֵפַ֥ת (śə·rê·p̄aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8316: Cremation

heifer.
הַפָּרָֽה׃ (hap·pā·rāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6510: A heifer, cow


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