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Now Yehowah spoke to Moses and Aaron, and said,
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This is the statute of the law which Yehowah has commanded: Tell the sons of Israel to bring you a red cow, a perfect one in which there is no blemish, on which no yoke has ever come.
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And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall take it out of the camp, and a man shall slaughter it in front of him.
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Then Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood on his fingers, and sprinkle some of its blood towards the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
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And a man shall burn the cow in his sight; he shall burn its skin and its flesh and its blood, with its dung;
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and the priest shall take some cedar wood and hyssop and double-dyed scarlet thread, and shall throw them on top of the burning cow.
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Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and after this he shall return into the camp; but the priest shall be unclean until the evening.
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And he who has burned it shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water; and he shall be unclean until the evening.
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Then a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the cow, and place them outside the camp in a clean place, and they shall be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel for the water of impurity, for the removal of sin.
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And he who gathers the ashes of the cow shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute to the sons of Israel, and to the settler who settles among them.
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He who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days;
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he shall purify himself with the water of impurity on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he does not purify himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he shall not be clean.
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Whoever touches the body of any person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yehowah, and that man shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water of impurity was not flung on him, he is unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
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This is the law when a man dies in a tent: all who come into the tent, and all who are in the tent, shall be unclean for seven days;
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and every open vessel which has no covering fixed upon it is unclean.
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And whoever in open country touches anyone who has been killed with a sword, or touches a dead body, or a human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.
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And for a man thus unclean they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt sin-offering, and someone shall add running water to it in a vessel;
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then a man who is clean shall take some hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who had been there, or on the one who touched a bone, or the one killed, or a dead body, or a grave.
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And the one who is clean shall sprinkle it on the unclean one on the third day and on the seventh day; so he shall purify him on the seventh day, and the unclean one shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he shall be clean in the evening.
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But any man who is unclean, and does not purify himself, shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yehowah; the water of impurity has not been flung on him: he is unclean.
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And it shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water of impurity shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of impurity shall be unclean until the evening.
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And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and any person who touches it shall be unclean until the evening.
