¹ And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ² This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and on which never came yoke ³ And you will give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forward without the camp, and one will kill her before his face ⁴ And Eleazar the priest will take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times ⁵ And one will burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, will he burn ⁶ And the priest will take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet , and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. ⁷ Then the priest will wash his clothes, and he will bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he will come into the camp, and the priest will be unclean until the even. ⁸ And he that burns her will wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and will be unclean until the even. ⁹ And a man that is clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it will 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 gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it will be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger that sojourns among them, for a statute forever. ¹¹ He that touches the dead body of any man will be unclean seven days. ¹² He will purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he will not be clean. ¹³ Whosoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies not himself, corrupts the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul will be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled on him, he will be unclean; his uncleanness [is] yet on him. ¹⁴ This is the law, when a man dies in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, will be unclean seven days. ¹⁵ And every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean. ¹⁶ And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, will be unclean seven days. ¹⁷ And for an unclean person they will take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water will be put thereto in a vessel ¹⁸ And a clean person will take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons that were there, and on him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave ¹⁹ And the clean person will sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he will purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and will be clean at even. ²⁰ But the man that will be unclean, and will not purify himself, that soul will be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. ²¹ And it will be a perpetual statute to them, that he that sprinkles the water of separation will wash his clothes; and he that touches the water of separation will be unclean until even. ²² And anything the unclean person touches will be unclean and the soul that touches it will be unclean until even.