MLV(i)
1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2 This is the statute of the law which Jehovah has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and upon which a yoke never came.
3 And you* will give her to Eleazar the priest and he will bring her forth outside the camp and she will be killed before his face.
4 And Eleazar the priest will 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 will be burned in his sight: her skin and her flesh and her blood, with her manure, he will burn.
6 And the priest will take cedar-wood and hyssop and scarlet and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
7 Then the priest will wash his clothes and he will bathe his flesh in water. And afterward he will come into the camp and the priest will be unclean until the evening.
8 And he who burned her will wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh in water and will be unclean until the evening.
9 And a man who is clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and lay them up outside the camp in a clean place. And it will 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 will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And it will be to the sons of Israel and to the stranger who travels among them, for an everlasting statute. 11 He who touches the dead body of any man will be unclean seven days. 12 The same will purify himself with it on the third day and on the seventh day he will be clean, but if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he will 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 Jehovah. And that soul will be cut off from Israel, because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
9 And a man who is clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and lay them up outside the camp in a clean place. And it will 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 will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And it will be to the sons of Israel and to the stranger who travels among them, for an everlasting statute. 11 He who touches the dead body of any man will be unclean seven days. 12 The same will purify himself with it on the third day and on the seventh day he will be clean, but if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he will 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 Jehovah. And that soul will be cut off from Israel, because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.