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.

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Footnotes

kThat is, “that does not have a lid tied shut”
lLiterally “upon the face of a field”
mLiterally “the dead of sword”
nHebrew “he will take”
oOr “burning of the sin offering”
pHebrew “he will put”