Numbers 19

And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ²This 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, ^aand upon which never came yoke: ³and ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her ^bforth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: ⁴and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and ^csprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times: ⁵and one shall burn the heifer in his sight; ^dher skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: ⁶and the priest shall take ^ecedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. ⁷Then the priest ^fshall 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. ⁸And ^ghe that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. ⁹And a man that is clean shall gather up ^hthe ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in ⁱa clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel ^jfor a water of separation: it is a purification for sin. ¹⁰And 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.

^11kHe that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. ¹²He ^lshall 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. ¹³Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, ^mdefileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and ⁿthat soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; ⁿhis uncleanness is yet upon him. ¹⁴This 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. ¹⁵And every ^oopen vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean. ¹⁶And ^pwhosoever 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. ¹⁷And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes ^qof the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: ¹⁸and a clean person shall take ^rhyssop, 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: ¹⁹and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean ^son the third day, and on the seventh day: and ^ton the seventh day he shall purify himself, and ^uwash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. ²⁰But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, ^xthat 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. ²¹And 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. ²²And ^ywhatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

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