The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Numbers (WEB)
19: 1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 19:2This is the statute of the law which
Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer
without spot, in which is no blemish, and on which never came yoke. 19:3You shall give her to
Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before
his face: 19:4and 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. 19:5One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her
skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: 19:6and the priest shall take
cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 19:7Then
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 even. 19:8He who burns her shall wash his
clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 19:9A 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 a water for impurity: it is a
sin-offering. 19:10He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until
the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourns among them,
for a statute forever. 19:11He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
19:12the same shall purify himself therewith 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.
19:13Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purifies himself,
defiles the tent 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. 19:14This 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. 19:15Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is
unclean. 19:16Whoever 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. 19:17For 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: 19:18and
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 who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the
dead, or the grave: 19:19and 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 even. 19:20But the man who 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. 19:21It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity
shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
19:22Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be
unclean until even.
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