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Numbers 19
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
This is the observance of the victim, which the Lord
hath ordained. Command the children of Israel, that
they bring unto thee a red cow of full age, in which
there is no blemish, and which hath not carried the
yoke:
And you shall deliver her to Eleazar the priest, who
shall bring her forth without the camp, and shall immolate
her in the sight of all:
And dipping his finger in her blood, shall sprinkle
it over against the door of the tabernacle seven times,
And shall burn her in the sight of all, delivering up
to the fire her skin, and her flesh, and her blood,
and her dung.
The priest shall also take cedar wood, and hyssop, and
scarlet twice dyed, and cast it into the flame, with
which the cow is consumed.
And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall
enter into the camp, and shall be unclean until the
evening.
He also that hath burned her, shall wash his garments,
and his body, and shall be unclean until the evening.
And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of
the cow, and shall pour them forth without the camp
in a most clean place, that they may be reserved for
the multitude of the children of Israel, and for a water
of aspersion: because the cow was burnt for sin.
And when he that carried the ashes of the cow, hath
washed his garments, he shall be unclean until the evening.
The children of Israel, and the strangers that dwell
among them, shall observe this for a holy thing by a
perpetual ordinance.
He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore
unclean seven days,
Shall be sprinkled with this water on the third day,
and on the seventh, and so shall be cleansed. If he
were not sprinkled on the third day, he cannot be cleansed
on the seventh.
Every one that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is
not sprinkled with mixture, shall profane the tabernacle
of the Lord, and shall perish out of Israel: because
he was not sprinkled with the water of expiation, he
shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain upon
him.
This is the law of a mall that dieth in a tent: All
that go into his tent and all the vessels that are there,
shall be unclean seven days.
The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it,
shall be unclean.
If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that
was slain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or
his grave, he shall be unclean seven days.
And they shall take of the ashes of the burning and
of the sin offering, and shall pour living waters upon
them into a vessel.
And a man that is clean shall dip hyssop in them, and
shall sprinkle therewith all the tent, and all the furniture,
and the men that are defiled with touching any such
thing:
And in this manner he that is clean shall purify the
unclean on the third and on the seventh day. And being
expiated the seventh day, he shall wash both himself
and his garments, and be unclean until the evening.
If any man be not expiated after this rite, his soul
shall perish out of the midst of the church: because
he hath profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, and was
not sprinkled with the water of purification.
This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also
that sprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every
one that shall touch the waters of expiation, shall
be unclean until the evening.
Whatsoever a person toucheth who is unclean, he shall
make it unclean: and the person that toucheth any of
these things, shall be unclean until the evening. |