19:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
19:2 This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath
commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they
bring thee a red heifer without spot, in which [is] no blemish,
[and] upon which never came a yoke:
19:3 And ye shall give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may
bring her forth without the camp, and [one] shall slay her
before his face:
19:4 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:
19:5 And [one] shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and
her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
19:6 And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and
scarlet, and cast [it] into the midst of the burning of the
heifer.
19:7 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 evening.
19:8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water,
and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the
evening.
19:9 And a man [that is] clean shall gather the ashes of the
heifer, and lay [them] 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.
19:10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash
his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be
to the children of Israel, and to the stranger that sojourneth
among them, for a statute for ever.
19:11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean
seven days.
19:12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on
the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he shall not purify
himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be
clean.
19:13 Whoever 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.
19:14 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.
19:15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon
it, [is] unclean.
19:16 And whoever 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.
19:17 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 to it in a vessel:
19:18 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:
19:19 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 evening.
19:20 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.
19:21 And it shall be a perpetual statute to 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
the evening.
19:22 And whatever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be
unclean; and the soul that toucheth [it] shall be unclean until
the evening.
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