9 A clean man will gather the ashes of the heifer, and he will put them in a clean ⌊place outside the camp⌋;g it will be for the community of the ⌊Israelites⌋h as a requirement for waters of impurity; it is a purification offering. 10 The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his garments; he will be unclean until evening. It will be an eternal decree for the ⌊Israelites⌋i and for one who dwells as an alien in their midst.

11 “ ‘The one who touches a corpse of ⌊any person⌋j will be unclean for seven days. 12 He will purify himself on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be clean. If he does not purify himself on the third day, he will not be clean on the seventh day. 13 Anyone who touches a corpse, the person of a human being who died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh, and that person will be cut off from Israel because the waters of impurity were not sprinkled on him. He will still be unclean, and uncleanness is on him.

14 “ ‘This is the law of a person who dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be unclean seven days. 15 Every container that is opened that does not have a lid cordk on it is unclean. 16 Anyone ⌊in the open field⌋l who touches ⌊one who has been slain⌋,m or a corpse, or a bone of a person, or a burial site, he will be unclean for seven days. 17 For the unclean person they will taken from the powder of the ⌊burnt purification offering⌋,o and they will putp running water into a container.