⁶The priest will take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson thread, and he will throw them in the midst of the burning heifer.^f ⁷The priest will wash his garments and his body in the water, and afterward he will come to the camp; the priest will be unclean until the evening. ⁸The one who burns it will wash his garments and his body in water; he will be unclean until the evening. ⁹A 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. ¹⁰The 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 Israelitesⁱ 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. 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.

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Footnotes

fLiterally “the burning of the heifer”
gLiterally “an outside place of the camp”
hLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
iLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
jLiterally “any human person”
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”