Numbers 19:4-22 ▼

4 And Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle toward opposite the face of the Tent of Meeting some of its blood seven times.

5 And the heifer shall be burned before his eyes—its hide and its flesh and its blood and its dung shall be burned.

6 And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet and cast them into the midst of the burning heifer.

7 And the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in the water, and afterward he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.

8 And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in the water and bathe his flesh in the water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

9 And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them outside of the camp in a clean place, and they shall be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel for the water of purification; it is for purifying from sin.

10 And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And it shall be a statute forever for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst.

11 And He who touches against the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

12 He shall cleanse himself from sin with the water on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself from sin on the third day, and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.

13 Anyone who touches the dead body of a man who has died, and does not cleanse himself from sin, he defiles the tabernacle of YHWH, and that person shall be cut off from Israel because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He shall be unclean; his uncleanness is on him still.

14 This is the law of the man when he dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days.

15 And every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.

16 And whoever touches in the open field one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

17 And they shall take for the unclean some of the ashes of the burning for sin, and shall be put on them living water in a vessel.

18 And a man who is ceremonially clean 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, or on the one who touched against a bone, or against the slain, or against the dead, or against a grave.

19 And the clean one shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and he shall cleanse him from sin on the seventh day and wash his clothes and bathe in the water, and he shall be clean at the evening.

20 And the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself from sin, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of YHWH. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

21 And it shall be for them an everlasting statute. He who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water of purification shall be unclean until the evening.

22 And whatever the unclean one touches in it shall be unclean, and the person who touches it shall be unclean until the evening.”