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And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron , saying,
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This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded , saying, Speak unto the children of Israel , that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, [and] upon which never came yoke.
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And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp , and one shall slay her before his face :
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and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger , and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
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And one shall burn the heifer in his sight ; her skin , and her flesh , and her blood , with her dung, shall he burn:
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and the priest shall take cedar -wood , and hyssop , and scarlet , and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer .
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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 even.
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And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water , and bathe his flesh in water , and shall be unclean until the even.
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And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer , and lay them up without the camp in a clean place ; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin -offering.
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And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes , and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel , and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever .
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He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days :
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the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day , and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day , then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
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Whosoever toucheth a dead person, the body of a man that hath died , and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah ; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel : because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean ; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
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This is the law when a man dieth in a tent : every one that cometh into the tent , and every one that is in the tent , shall be unclean seven days .
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And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean .
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And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword , or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave , shall be unclean seven days .
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And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin -offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
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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 the bone , or the slain , or the dead , or the grave :
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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 him; and he shall wash his clothes , and bathe himself in water , and shall be clean at even.
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But the man that shall be unclean , and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly , because he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah : the water for impurity hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean .
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And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them: and he that sprinkleth the water for impurity shall wash his clothes , and he that toucheth the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
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And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean ; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.