19
1 The
LORD spoke to
Moses and to Aaron,
saying,
2 “This
is the statute
of the law
which the LORD
has commanded.
Tell the children
of Israel to
bring you a red
heifer without
spot, in which
is no defect,
and which was
never yoked.
3 You
shall give her
to Eleazar the
priest, and he
shall bring her
outside of the
camp, and one
shall kill her
before his face.
4 Eleazar the
priest shall
take some 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 meat,
and her blood,
with her dung,
shall he burn.
6 The
priest shall
take cedar wood, hyssop,
and scarlet, and
cast it into
the middle 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 evening.
8 He who
burns her shall
wash his clothes
in water, and
bathe his flesh
in water, and
shall be unclean
until the evening.
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 use
in water
for cleansing impurity.
It is a
sin offering.
10 He
who gathers the ashes
of the heifer
shall wash
his clothes, and
be unclean until
the evening. 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 He
shall purify
himself with water
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 purify
himself, defiles
the LORD’s
tabernacle; 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 poured on
them in a
vessel.
18 A
clean person shall
take hyssop, dip
it in the
water, and
sprinkle it on
the tent, on all
the vessels, on
the persons who
were there, and
on him who
touched the bone,
or the slain,
or the dead,
or the grave.
19 The
clean person shall
sprinkle on the
unclean on the
third day, and
on the seventh
day. On the
seventh day, he
shall purify him.
He shall wash
his clothes and
bathe himself in
water, and shall
be clean at
evening.
20 But
the man who
shall be unclean,
and shall not
purify himself,
that soul shall
be cut off
from among the
assembly, because
he has defiled
the sanctuary of
the LORD. The
water for impurity
has not been
sprinkled on him.
He is unclean.
21 It
shall be a
perpetual statute
to them. He who
sprinkles the
water for impurity
shall wash
his clothes, and
he who touches the
water for impurity
shall be unclean
until evening.
22 “Whatever
the unclean person
touches shall be
unclean; and the
soul that touches
it shall be
unclean until
evening.”