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  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  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