Num 19
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And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
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This is the constitution of the law, as the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the
sons of Israel, and let them take for you a red heifer without spot, which has no
spot on her, and on which no yoke has been put.
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And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest; and they shall bring her out of the
camp into a clean place, and shall kill her before his face.
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And Eleazar shall take of her blood, and sprinkle of her blood seven times in front
of the tabernacle of witness.
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And they shall burn her to ashes before him; and her skin and her flesh and her blood,
with her dung, shall be consumed.
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And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet wool, and they shall cast
them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
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And the priest shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterwards
he shall go into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean till evening.
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And he who burns her shall wash his garments, and bathe his body, and shall be unclean
till evening.
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And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up in a clean
place outside the camp; and they shall be for the congregation of the children of
Israel to keep: it is the water of sprinkling, a purification.
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And he who gathers up the ashes of the heifer shall wash his garments, and shall be
unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute for the children of Israel
and for the strangers joined to them.
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He who touches the dead body of any man, shall be unclean seven days.
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He shall be purified on the third day and the seventh day, and shall be clean; but
if he be not purged on the third day and the seventh day, he shall not be clean.
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Every one that touches the carcase of the person of a man, if he should have died,
and the other not have been purified, has defiled the tabernacle of the Lord: that
soul shall be cut off from Israel, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled
upon him; he is unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
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And this is the law; if a man die in a house, every one that goes into the house,
and all things in the house, shall be unclean seven days.
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And every open vessel which has not a covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.
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And every one who shall touch a man slain by violence, or a corpse, or human bone,
or sepulcher, shall be unclean seven days.
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And they shall take for the unclean of the burnt ashes of purification, and they shall
pour upon them running water into a vessel.
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And a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it into the water, and sprinkle it upon
the house, and the furniture, and all the souls that are therein, and upon him whom
touched the human bone, or the slain man, or the corpse, or the tomb.
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And the clean man shall sprinkle the water on the unclean on the third day and on
the seventh day, and on the seventh day he shall purify himself; and the other shall
wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
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And whatever man shall be defiled and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be
cut off from the midst of the congregation, because he has defiled the holy things
of the Lord, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is
unclean.
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And it shall be to you a perpetual statute; and he who sprinkles the water of sprinkling
shall wash his garments; and he who touches the water of sprinkling shall be unclean
until evening.
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And whatever the unclean man shall touch shall be unclean, and the soul that touches
it shall be unclean till evening.