Numbers:19
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron ,
saying ,
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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 :
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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 :
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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 :
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And one shall burn the heifer in his sight ;
her skin ,
and her flesh ,
and her blood ,
with her dung ,
shall he burn :
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And the priest shall take cedar wood ,
and hyssop ,
and scarlet ,
and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer .
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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 .
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And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water ,
and bathe his flesh in water ,
and shall be unclean until the even .
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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 .
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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 .
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He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And every open vessel ,
which hath no covering bound upon it ,
is unclean .
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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 .
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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 :
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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 :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean ;
and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even .