consider Numbers 19. The chapter contains sprinkling with blood (v. 4), sprinkling with the water of purification (vv. 13, 20), which was most likely sprinkling with ashes from the heifer (vv. 17–19). But this chapter in Numbers also teaches that the person who was unclean and was sprinkled in this way must complete his cleansing on the seventh day by bathing in water (v. 19). In other words, he is first sprinkled, and then washes much more thoroughly—he is immersed, or water is poured on him.
