“1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 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: 3 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: 4 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: 5 And [one] shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her
flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: 6 And the priest
shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast [it] into the
midst of the burning of the heifer. 7 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. 8
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his
flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 9 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. 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.” (Nu 19:1-22 AV)
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