Numbers 19:1-13 And LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

ACV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ² This is the statute of the law which LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and upon which a yoke never came. ³ And ye shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside the camp, and she shall be killed 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 And the heifer shall be burned in his sight: her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, he shall 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 evening. ⁸ And he who burned her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening. ⁹ And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside the camp in a clean place. And it shall be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel for a water for impurity. It is a sin offering. ¹⁰ And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. And it shall be to the sons of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourns 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 with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean, but if he does not 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 does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of LORD. And that soul shall be cut off from Israel, because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him. He shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.