1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 This is the
statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to the children
of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no
blemish, and on which never came yoke. 3 You shall give her
to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and
one shall kill her before his face: 4 and Eleazar the priest shall take of
her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the
tent of meeting seven times. 5 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her
skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: 6 and
the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into
the midst of the burning of the heifer. 7 Then the priest shall wash his
clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come
into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. 8 He who
burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and
shall be unclean until the even. 9 A man who is clean shall gather up the
ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place;
and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a
water for impurity: it is a sin-offering. 10 He who gathers the ashes of
the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it
shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among
them, for a statute forever. 11 He who touches the dead body of any man
shall be unclean seven days: 12 the same shall purify himself therewith on
the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn’t
purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and
doesn’t purifies himself, defiles the tent of Yahweh; and that soul shall be
cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him,
he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him. 14 This is the law
when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who
is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 15 Every open vessel, which
has no covering bound on it, is unclean. 16 Whoever in the open field
touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or
a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 17 For the unclean they shall take
of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and running water shall be
put thereto in a vessel: 18 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip
it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on
the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or
the dead, or the grave: 19 and the clean person shall sprinkle on the
unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he
shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and shall be clean at even. 20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall
not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the
assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for
impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. 21 It shall be a
perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall
wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean
until even. 22 Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and
the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.
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