Num 19
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And YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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This is the statute of the law which YHWH has commanded, saying, Speak to the children
of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, [and]
upon which never came yoke.
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And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without
the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
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and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood
toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
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And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood,
with her dung, shall he burn:
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and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the
midst of the burning of the heifer.
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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.
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And he who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water,
and shall be unclean until the even.
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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 for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
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And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean
until the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger that
sojourns among them, for a statute for ever.
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He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
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the same shall purify himself therewith 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.
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Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man that has died, and purifies not himself,
defiles the tabernacle of YHWH; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because
the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness
is yet upon him.
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This is the law when a man dies in a tent: every one that comes into the tent, and
every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
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And every open vessel, which has no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
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And whoever in the open field touches one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body,
or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
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And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering;
and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
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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 whom touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
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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 him; and he shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
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But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be
cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of YHWH:
the water for impurity has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
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And it shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity
shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean
until even.
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And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches
it shall be unclean until even.