1The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifer. 11The law for the use of it in purification of the unclean.
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1And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a 1red heifer 2without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which 3never came yoke:
3And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her 1forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
4And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and 1sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
5And one shall 1burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
6And the priest shall take 1cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
7Then 1the 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.
8And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
9And a 1man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and 2lay them up without the camp in 3a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel 4for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
10And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be 1unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
11¶ He that 1toucheth the dead body of any aman shall be unclean seven days.
12He shall 1purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13Whosoever 1toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, 2defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and 3that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
14This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: 1all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15And every 1open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
16And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
17And 1for an unclean person they shall take of the aashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and brunning water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
18And 1a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
19And the 1clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean 2on the third day, and on the seventh day: and 3on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and 4wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
20But 1the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
21And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that 1he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
22And 1whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.