Numbers 19:10
Good News Translation
The one who collected the ashes must wash his clothes, but he remains unclean until evening. This regulation is valid for all time to come, both for the Israelites and for the foreigners living among them.

New Revised Standard Version
The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. This shall be a perpetual statute for the Israelites and for the alien residing among them.

Contemporary English Version
The man who collects the ashes must wash his clothes, but will remain unclean until evening. This law must always be obeyed by the people of Israel and the foreigners living among them.

New American Bible
The one who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer shall also wash his garments and be unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute, both for the Israelites and for the alien residing among them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he that carried the ashes of the cow, hath washed his garments, he shall be unclean until the evening. The children of Israel, and the strangers that dwell among them, shall observe this for a holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he that carried the ashes of the cow, hath washed his garments, he shall be unclean until the evening. The children of Israel, and the strangers that dwell among them, shall observe this for a holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.

wash his

Numbers 19:7,8,19 And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter into the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening. . . .

it shall be

Numbers 15:15,16 There shall be all one law and judgment both for you and for them who are strangers in the land. . . .

Exodus 12:49 The same law shall be to him that is born in the land, and to the proselyte that sojourneth with you.

Romans 3:29,30 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? yes, of the Gentiles also. . . .

Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all and in all.

Context
The Red Heifer
9And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the cow, and shall pour them forth without the camp in a most clean place, that they may be reserved for the multitude of the children of Israel, and for a water of aspersion: because the cow was burnt for sin. 10And when he that carried the ashes of the cow, hath washed his garments, he shall be unclean until the evening. The children of Israel, and the strangers that dwell among them, shall observe this for a holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.
Cross References
Leviticus 14:46
He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be unclean until evening,

Numbers 19:7
And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter into the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19:9
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