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* And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron , saying , * This is the ordinance of the Law which Jehovah has commanded , saying : Speak to the children of Israel , that they bring you a red heifer that is whole , in which there is no blemish and upon which a yoke has never come . * You shall give it to Eleazar the priest , and he shall lead it outside the camp , and it shall be slaughtered before him ; * and Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger , and sprinkle some of its blood seven times before the front of the tent of meeting . * And the heifer shall be burned before his eyes : its hide , its flesh , its blood , and its dung shall be burned . * And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet , and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer . * Then the priest shall wash his clothes , he shall bathe his flesh in water , and afterward he shall come into the camp ; the priest shall be unclean until evening . * And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water , bathe his flesh in water , and shall be unclean until evening . * And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer , and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place ; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for the water of impurity ; it is for purifying from sin . * And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes , and be unclean until evening . It shall be a perpetual statute to the children of Israel and to the stranger who sojourns among them . * He who touches a man , his soul having died , shall be unclean seven days . * He shall purify himself from it on the third day and on the seventh day ; then he shall be clean . But if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day , he shall not be clean . * Whoever touches a dead man , his soul having died , and does not purify himself , has defiled the tabernacle of Jehovah . That soul shall be cut off from Israel . He shall be unclean , because the water of impurity was not sprinkled upon him ; his uncleanness is still upon him . * This is the law when a man dies in a tent : All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days ; * and every open vessel , which has no cover fastened on it , is unclean . * Whoever in the open field touches one who was pierced by a sword or who has died , or a bone of a man , or a grave , shall be unclean seven days . * And for the unclean they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification from sin , and running water shall be put on them in a vessel . * A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water , sprinkle it on the tent , on all the vessels , on the persons who were there , or on the one who touched a bone , the slain , the dead , or a grave . * The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day ; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself , wash his clothes , and bathe in water ; and at evening he shall be clean . * But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself , that soul shall be cut off from among the assembly , because he has defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah . The water of impurity has not been sprinkled on him ; he is unclean . * It shall be a perpetual statute for them . He who sprinkles the water of impurity shall wash his clothes ; and he who touches the water of impurity shall be unclean until evening . * And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean ; and the soul who touches it shall be unclean until evening .

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