Numbers (Adults)

Numbers Chapter 19

Lesson written by Brian Andrews

Chapter 19

Check your reading:

  1. What was Eleazar to sacrifice outside the camp?



  2. What was a person who touched a dead body to do?  What if they did not do these things?



  3. What was to be done when a person died in a tent or if a person touched a dead person, bone or grave in the open field?  What if they did not do these things?



  4. RESEARCH:  How many instances is the use of the water mixed with the ashes of a red heifer (waters of cleansing) recorded in the Old Testament?



Class Discussion

  1. Is being unclean by definition sinful?






  2. What do you think is a possible reason God covers these commands?  How are they different from direction in Numbers chapter 5:1-4?







  3. Discuss Hebrews 9:11-14 in light of this chapter.