Numbers 19:1

WEB

The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

KJV

And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

Commentary

Commentary

And the Lord spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron,.... Not at this time, after the business of the s pies, and the affair of Korah, but before the children of Israel departed from Sinai; and so Aben Ezra observes, that this was spoken in the wilderness of Sinai, when the Lord commanded to put unclean persons out of the camp, and when some were defiled with a dead body, and unfit for the passover, Num 5:2 ; and mention is made of the "water of purifying", Num 8:7 , saying; as follows.