﻿Numbers.
Chapter 19.
The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and said, 
“This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: speak to the Israelites, and let them bring you a red heifer, sound, with no blemish, on which no yoke has ever come. 
Give it to Eleazar the priest. He shall bring it outside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered in his presence. 
Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle some of its blood seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting. 
The heifer shall be burned before his eyes; its skin, its flesh, and its blood, together with its dung, shall be burned. 
The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet yarn and throw them into the midst of the burning heifer. 
The priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; afterward he may enter the camp. The priest shall be unclean until evening. 
The one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, bathe his body in water, and be unclean until evening. 
A clean man shall gather the ashes of the heifer and place them outside the camp in a clean place. They shall be kept for the congregation of the Israelites for the water for purification; it is a sin offering. 
The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. It shall be a perpetual statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them. 
Anyone who touches the dead body of any human being shall be unclean for seven days. 
He shall purify himself with it on the third day and the seventh day; then he shall be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, he shall not be clean. 
Anyone who touches a dead body, that of a human being who has died, and does not purify himself defiles the LORD's tabernacle. That person shall be cut off from Israel, because the water for purification was not splashed on him. He shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still in him. 
This is the law when a person dies in a tent: everyone who enters the tent and everything in the tent shall be unclean for seven days. 
Every open vessel without a covering tied over it is unclean. 
Anyone who, in the open field, touches someone slain by a sword, a dead body, a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean for seven days. 
For the unclean person they shall take some ashes from the burned sin offering, and spring water shall be poured over them in a vessel. 
A clean man shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the vessels, the persons who were there, and the one who touched a bone, someone slain, a dead body, or a grave. 
The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and the seventh day, and cleanse him on the seventh day. The one being cleansed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be clean in the evening. 
But the man who becomes unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the LORD's sanctuary. The water for purification was not splashed on him; he is unclean. 
It shall be a perpetual statute for them. The one who sprinkles the water for purification shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for purification shall be unclean until evening. 
Everything the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.” 
