Numbers 19

Thomson^{(i) 1} Again the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ² This is the purification of the law in respect to all the things which the Lord hath enjoined, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and let them bring thee a red heifer, without blemish, which hath no spot in her, and on which there hath never been put a yoke. ³ And thou shalt give her to Eleazar the priest; and they shall lead her out of the camp, to a clean place, and kill her in his presence. ⁴ And Eleazar shall take some of the blood thereof, and shall sprinkle, over against the front of the tabernacle of the testimony, some of the blood thereof seven times. ⁵ Then they shall burn her in his sight; and when her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, and dung, are burned, ⁶ the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the midst of the cinders of the heifer. ⁷ Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and wash his whole body with water, and, after that, he shall come into ⁸ the camp. And the priest shall be unclean until the evening. And he who burned her shall wash his clothes, and wash his body with water, and be unclean until evening. ⁹ And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them without the camp, in a clean place, and water of sprinkling shall be kept in store for the congregation of Israel. It is a purification. ¹⁰ And he who gathereth up the ashes of the heifer, shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. And it shall be for the children of Israel, and for the proselytes who have joined them, an everlasting ordinance, ¹¹ that whoever toucheth the dead body of a man shall be unclean seven days. ¹² He shall be purified on the third, and on the seventh day, then he shall be clean: but if he be not purified on the third, and on the seventh day, he shall not be clean. ¹³ If any person, who hath touched the dead, die, without being purified, he hath defiled the tabernacle of the Lord; that soul shall be blotted out from among Israel. Because the water of sprinkling bath not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean. His impurity is still in him. ¹⁴ This also is the law, that if any man die in a house, every one who goeth into the house, and all the things in the house, shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁵ And every open vessel which hath not a cover fastened on it, is unclean. ¹⁶ And every one who, in the open field, toucheth one slain, or dead, or a human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁷ Now, for one who is unclean, they shall take some of the burnt ashes of the purification, and pour spring water thereon, in a vessel; ¹⁸ and a man who is clean shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the house, and on the vessels, and on the persons who may be in the house, and on him who hath touched a human bone, or a man who hath been slain, or one dead, or a grave. ¹⁹ The clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean, on the third day, and on the seventh day. And on the seventh day he shall purify himself^ and shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until evening. ²⁰ And whoever shall be defiled, and not purified, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation, because he hath defiled the holy things of the Lord. Because the water of sprinkling hath not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean. ²¹ And it shall be an everlasting statute for you, that he who sprinkleth the water of sprinkling, shall wash his clothes; and he who toucheth the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening: ²² and whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the person who toucheth it shall be unclean until evening.