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And the Lord spake
unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
02 This is the ordinance of the law which
the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the
children of Israel, that they bring thee a red
heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and
upon which never came yoke:
03 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the
priest, that he may bring her forth without the
camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
04 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her
blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood
directly before the tabernacle of the
congregation seven times:
05 And one shall burn the heifer in his
sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood,
with her dung, shall he burn:
06 And the priest shall take cedar wood,
and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the
midst of the burning of the heifer.
07 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 even.
08 And he that burneth her shall wash his
clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water,
and shall be unclean until the even.
09 And a man that is clean shall gather up
the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without
the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept
for the congregation of the children of Israel
for a water of separation: it is a purification
for sin.
10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the
heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean
until the even: and it shall be unto the children
of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth
among them, for a statute for ever.
11 He that toucheth the dead body of any
man shall be unclean seven days.
12 He shall purify 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.
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13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any
man that is dead, and purifieth not himself,
defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and that
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.
14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a
tent: all that come into the tent, and all that
is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15 And every open vessel, which hath no
covering bound upon it, is unclean.
16 And 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.
17 And for an unclean person they shall
take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of
purification for sin, 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 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:
19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon
the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh
day: and on the seventh day he shall purify
himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself
in water, and shall be clean at even.
20 But the 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.
21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto
them, that he that sprinkleth the water of
separation shall wash his clothes; and he that
toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean
until even.
22 And whatsoever the unclean person
toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that
toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
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