“For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured into a vessel. A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave. The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall […]
⛓ Read Numbers 19 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The 'water of cleansing' / sprinkling rite for purification may stand behind 'born of water,' especially given v.25's dispute 'about purification.' Faint and contested; the water imagery is more naturally Ezekiel's, but the purification context raises availability.
Low confidenceThe ritual sprinkling of the water of purification to cleanse defilement informs the cultic background of the washing of regeneration. The Mosaic lustration provides the ceremonial idiom later spiritualized into the saving bath.
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