5 While he watches, the heifer is to be burned-its hide, flesh, blood and intestines.
5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
5 And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.
5 "Then under Eleazar's supervision burn the cow, the whole thing - hide, meat, blood, even its dung.
5 Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight: its hide, its flesh, its blood, and its offal shall be burned.
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.