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¹ And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,² This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, [and] on which never came a yoke.³ And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside the camp, and one shall slay her 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 one shall burn the heifer 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 that burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.⁹ And a man that 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 that 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 that sojourns among them, for a statute forever.

¹¹ He that touches any dead body of man shall be unclean seven days:¹² the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day, and 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 man that dies, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; 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 man dies in a tent: every one that comes into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.¹⁵ And every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.¹⁶ And whoever in the open field touches one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.¹⁷ And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:¹⁸ and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons that were there, and on him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:¹⁹ and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.²⁰ But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.²¹ And it shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he that sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he that touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.²² And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.