About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible::

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

3/31/2023

Numbers 19:1-22 The Water of Purification

 

The Water of Purification

Numbers 19:1-22                The Fourth Book of Moses Called Numbers

The Lord [spoke] to Moses & Aaron, This is an [rule] of the Law, which the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the children [people] of Israel, [so] they bring a red heifer, without spot & blemish [that] has never [had a] yoke [of a plow on it.] 

You shall give her to Eleazar, the priest, [so] he may bring her [outside] the camp & [someone] shall [kill] her before [him.] Eleazar shall take [some] of her blood & sprinkle directly [in front of] the tabernacle of the congregation 7 times. 

[Someone] shall burn the heifer, her skin, her flesh, her blood & her [feces] in [Eleazar’s] sight. [Eleazar,] the priest, shall take cedar wood, hyssop & scarlet & cast it into the midst of the burning heifer.

Then the priest shall wash his clothes & bathe his [body] in water. Afterward, he shall come into the camp & the priest shall be unclean until [evening.] 

[The person who burns the heifer] shall wash his clothes in water & bathe his [body] in water & shall be unclean until [evening.] 

A man [who] is clean, shall gather up the ashes of the heifer & store] them [outside] the camp in a clean place. It shall be kept for the congregation of the [people] of Israel for a water of separation. It’s for purification [from] sin. 

[The person who gathers] the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes & be unclean until [evening.] It shall [be the same] for the [people] of Israel & the stranger [who temporarily stays with them,] as a [mandate] forever.

[The person who touches] the dead body of any man shall be unclean 7 days. He shall purify himself with iton the 3rd day. On the 7th day, he shall be clean. If he doesn’t purify himself on the 3rd day, he won’t be clean on the 7th day.

[Whoever] touches the dead body of any man & [doesn’t] purify himself , [defiles] the tabernacle of the Lord. That [person] shall be cut off from Israel, because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him. He shall be unclean & his uncleanness is [still] upon him.

This is the law, when a man [dies] in a tent: all [who] are in the tent or come into the tent, shall be unclean [for] 7 days. Every open [container] which has no cover upon it, is unclean.

[Whoever] touches [someone who] was [killed] with a sword in the open fields,  a dead body, a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean 7 days. For an unclean person, they shall take [some] of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin & running water shall be put [into] a vessel.

A clean person shall take hyssop & dip it in the [purification] water, & sprinkle it on the tent, upon all the vessels, upon the [people who] were there, on the [person who] touched a bone, [someone killed,] someone dead, or a grave. 

The clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean [person] on the 3rd day & on the 7th day, he shall purify himself & wash his clothes & bathe himself in water & shall be clean [that evening.]

But the man [who] is unclean & doesn’t purify himself, shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has [defiled] the sanctuary of the Lord. The water of separation hasn’t been sprinkled on him & he is unclean.

It shall be a perpetual [mandate] to them, that the [person who] sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes. The [person who] touches the water of separation, shall be unclean until [evening.] 

[Whatever] the unclean person touches, shall be unclean. The [person who] touches [that unclean item,] shall be unclean until [evening.]