As we approach Numbers 19, we remember that thousands of people had died in recent plagues resulting from the people’s disobedience. With all this death, there was potential of the tabernacle being defiled by those who had come into contact with dead bodies. This chapter provides a solution to the problem of living in a world of death while seeking to walk with God. In this rather obscure and strange passage, we learn how to live in right relationship with God in a world that is plagued with death because of sin.