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* And the Lorde spake to Moses , and to Aaron , saying , * * And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest , that he may bring her forth without the camp , and (note :)Another priest .(:note ) [one ] shall slay her before his face : * Then shall Eleazar the Priest take of her blood with his finger , and sprinkle it before the Tabernacle of the Congregation seuen times , * And cause the kow to be burnt in his sight : with her skinne , and her flesh , and her blood , &amp ; her doung shal he burne her . * Then shal the Priest take cedar wood , and hyssope &amp ; skarlet lace , and cast them in the mids of the fire where the kow burneth . * Then the (note :)Meaning , Eleazar .(:note ) 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 . * And he that (note :)The inferior priest who killed her , and burned her .(:note ) burneth her shall wash his clothes in water , and bathe his flesh in water , and shall be unclean until the even . * 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 (note :)Or , the water of separation because they that were separate due to their uncleanness , were sprinkled with it and made clean , ( Num_8:7 ). It is also called holy water , because it was ordained for a holy use , ( Num_1:17 ).(:note ) water of separation : it [is ] a purification for sin . * Therefore he that gathereth the ashes of the kowe , shal wash his clothes , and remaine vncleane vntil euen : and it shalbe vnto the children of Israel , and vnto the stranger that dwelleth among them , a statute for euer . * Hee that toucheth the dead body of any man , shalbe vncleane euen seuen dayes . * He shall purify himself (note :)With the sprinkling of water .(:note ) 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 . * 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 (note :)So that he should not be esteemed to be of the holy people , but as a polluted and excommunicated person .(:note ) cut off from Israel : because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him , he shall be unclean ; his uncleanness [is ] yet upon him . * This is the law , Whe a man dieth in a tent , all that come into the tent , and all that is in the tent , shalbe vncleane seuen dayes , * And all the vessels that bee open , which haue no couering fastened vpon them , shall be vncleane . * Also whosoeuer toucheth one that is slaine with a sworde in the fielde , or a dead person , or a bone of a dead man , or a graue , shall be vncleane seuen dayes . * And for an unclean [person ] they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for (note :)Of the red cow burnt for sin .(:note ) sin , and Water of the fountain or river . running water shall be put thereto in a vessel : * And a (note :)One of the priests who is clean .(:note ) 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 : * 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 (note :)Because he had been among them that were unclean : or else had touched the water as in ( Num_19:21 ).(:note ) wash his clothes , and bathe himself in water , and shall be clean at even . * But the man that is vncleane and purifieth not himselfe , that person shalbe cut off fro among the Congregation , because hee hath defiled the Sanctuarie of the Lorde : and the sprinkling water hath not bene sprinkled vpon him : therefore shall he be vncleane . * And it shalbe a perpetual lawe vnto them , that he that sprinkleth the sprinkling water , shall wash his clothes : also hee that toucheth the sprinkling water , shalbe vncleane vntill euen . * And whatsoever the unclean [person ] toucheth shall be unclean ; and the soul that toucheth (note :)That is , unclean .(:note ) [it ] shall be unclean until even .

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