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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 19:9/אבן עזרא על במדבר י״ט:ט׳

אאיש טהור. איננו הכהן השורף:

1A MAN THAT IS CLEAN. The reference is not to the kohen who burns the cow.²¹ does this (Krinsky). According to the Sifre on this verse, any clean person, even if not a kohen, may gather the ashes of the red cow. However, I.E. seems to believe that this task was assigned to a kohen.

בלמי נדה. פירושו רחוק כמו מנדיכם:

2A WATER OF SPRINKLING. The meaning of niddah (sprinkling) is distance.²² (water of sprinkling) means the water of the distant, i.e., the water to be used to purify the distant. Compare, me-naddekhem²³ comes from the same root as niddah. When one hates another person, he keeps his distance from him. (that hate you) (Is. 66:5).