Numbers 19:11–22

¹¹“ ‘The one who touches a corpse of any person^j will be unclean for seven days. ¹²He 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. ¹³Anyone 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. ¹⁵Every container that is opened that does not have a lid cord^k on it is unclean. ¹⁶Anyone 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. ¹⁷For the unclean person they will takeⁿ from the powder of the burnt purification offering,^o and they will put^p running water into a container. ¹⁸A clean person will take hyssop and dip it into the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the objects and persons who were there, and on one who touched the bone, or the one slain, or the dead, or the burial site. ¹⁹The clean person will spatter the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he will purify him, and he will wash his garments; he will bathe in the waters, and in the evening he will be clean. ²⁰But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from the midst of the assembly because he defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh; the water of impurity was not sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

²¹“ ‘It will be an eternal decree for them. The one who spatters the waters of impurity will wash his garments, and the one who touches the waters of impurity will be unclean until the evening. ²²Anything that the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until the evening.’ ”