Then the LORD spoke
to Moses
and Aaron
, saying
,
"This is the statute
of the law
which
the LORD
has commanded
, saying
, `Speak
to the sons
of Israel
that they bring
you an aunblemished
red
heifer
in which
is no
defect
and bon which
a yoke
has never
1been placed
.
`You shall give it to aEleazar
the priest
, and it shall bbe brought
outside
the camp
and be slaughtered
in his presence
.
`Next Eleazar the priest
shall take
some
of its blood
with his finger
and asprinkle
some
of its blood
toward
the front
of the tent
of meeting
seven
times
.
`Then the heifer shall be burned
in his sight
; aits hide
and its flesh
and its blood
, with its refuse
, shall be burned
.
`The priest shall take
acedar
wood
and hyssop
and scarlet
material and cast
it into the midst
of the 1burning
heifer
.
`The priest ashall then wash
his clothes
and bathe
his 1body
in water
, and afterward
come
into the camp
, but the priest
shall be unclean
until
evening
.
`The one who burns it shall also wash
his clothes
in water
and bathe
his 1body
in water
, and shall be unclean
until
evening
.
`Now a man who is clean
shall gather
up the ashes
of the heifer
and deposit
them outside
the camp
in a clean
place
, and 1the congregation
of the sons
of Israel
shall keep
it as awater
to remove impurity
; it is 2purification
from sin
.
`The one who gathers the ashes
of the heifer
ashall wash
his clothes
and be unclean
until
evening
; and it shall be a perpetual
statute
to the sons
of Israel
and to the alien
who sojourns
among
them.
` aThe one who touches the corpse
of any
1person
shall be unclean
for seven
days
.
`That one shall apurify
himself from uncleanness
with 1the water on the third
day
and on the seventh
day
, and then he will be clean
; but if
he does not purify
himself on the third
day
and on the seventh
day
, he will not be clean
.
` aAnyone who touches
a corpse
, the 1body
of a man
who
has died
, and does not purify
himself, bdefiles
the 2tabernacle
of the LORD
; and that person
shall be cut
off
from Israel
. Because
the water
for impurity
was not 3 csprinkled
on him, he shall be unclean
; his uncleanness
is still
on him.
`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
for seven
days
.
`Every open
vessel
, which
has
no
covering
1tied
down
on it, shall be unclean
.
` aAlso, anyone who
in the open
field
touches
one
who
has been slain
with a sword
or
who has died
naturally, or
a human
bone
or
a grave
, shall be unclean
for seven
days
.
`Then for the unclean person they shall take
some
of the 1ashes
of the 2burnt
3 apurification
from sin
and 4flowing
water
shall be 5added
to them in a vessel
.
`A clean person
shall take
hyssop
and dip
it in the water
, and sprinkle
it on the tent
and on all
the furnishings
and on the persons
who
were there
, and on the one who touched
the bone
or
the one
slain
or
the one dying
naturally or
the grave
.
`Then the clean person ashall sprinkle
on the unclean
on the third
day
and on the seventh
day
; and on the seventh
day
he shall purify
him from uncleanness
, and he shall wash
his clothes
and bathe
himself in water
and shall be clean
by evening
.
`But the man who
is unclean
and does not purify
himself from uncleanness
, that person
shall be cut
off
from the midst
of the assembly
, because
he has adefiled
the sanctuary
of the LORD
; the water
for impurity
has not been sprinkled
on him, he is unclean
.
`So it shall be a perpetual statute
for them. And he awho sprinkles
the water
for impurity
shall wash
his clothes
, and he who touches
the water
for impurity
shall be unclean
until
evening
.
` aFurthermore, anything that the unclean
person touches
shall be unclean
; and the person
who touches
it shall be unclean
until
evening
.' "