Numbers 19:21
Good News Translation
You are to observe this rule for all time to come. The person who sprinkles the water for purification must also wash his clothes; anyone who touches the water remains ritually unclean until evening.

New Revised Standard Version
It shall be a perpetual statute for them. The one who sprinkles the water for cleansing shall wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water for cleansing shall be unclean until evening.

Contemporary English Version
These laws will never change. The man who sprinkled the water and the ashes on you when you were unclean must also wash his clothes. And whoever touches this water is unclean until evening.

New American Bible
This will be a permanent statute for you. Those who sprinkle the purification water will wash their garments, and those who come in contact with the purification water will be unclean until evening.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that sprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every one that shall touch the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that sprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every one that shall touch the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:25,40 And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead: he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun set. . . .

Leviticus 16:26-28 But he that hath let go the emissary goat, shall wash his clothes, and his body with water, and so shall enter into the camp. . . .

Hebrews 7:19 For the law brought nothing to perfection: but a bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw nigh to God.

Hebrews 9:10,13,14 And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction. . . .

Hebrews 10:4 For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.

Context
Purification of the Unclean
20If any man be not expiated after this rite, his soul shall perish out of the midst of the church: because he hath profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, and was not sprinkled with the water of purification. 21This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that sprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every one that shall touch the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening.22Whatsoever a person toucheth who is unclean, he shall make it unclean: and the person that toucheth any of these things, shall be unclean until the evening.…
Cross References
Exodus 27:21
In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a perpetual observance throughout their successions among the children of Israel.

Numbers 19:7
And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter into the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19:20
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