19 And the LORD spake
unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 This 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, and upon
which never came yoke: 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the
priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay
her before his face: 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of
her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the
tabernacle of the congregation seven times: 5 And one shall burn the heifer in his
sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: 6 And the priest shall take cedar wood,
and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the
heifer. 7 Then the priest shall 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. 8 And he that burneth her shall wash his
clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until
the even. 9 And a man that is clean shall gather
up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean
place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel
for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin. 10 And 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. 11 He that toucheth the dead body of any
man shall be unclean seven days.
12 He shall
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. 13 Whosoever
toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself,
defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from
Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he
shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him. 14 This
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. 15 And
every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean. 16 And
whosoever 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. 17 And
for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer
of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: 18 And
a clean person shall take hyssop, 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: 19 And
the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and
on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. 20 But
the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that 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. 21 And
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. 22 And
whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul
that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.