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And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to 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 blemish, wherein is no defect, and upon which never came yoke;
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and ye shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp , and one shall slaughter it before him.
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And Eleazar the priest shall take of its blood with his finger , and shall sprinkle of its blood directly before the tent of meeting seven times.
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And one shall burn the heifer before his eyes ; its skin and its flesh , and its blood , with its dung, shall he burn.
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And the priest shall take cedar -wood , and hyssop , and scarlet , and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer .
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And the priest shall wash his garments , and he shall bathe his flesh in water , and afterwards he shall come into the camp ; and the priest shall be unclean until the even;
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and he that hath burned it shall wash his garments in water , and bathe his flesh in water , and shall be unclean until the even.
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And a clean man shall gather the ashes of the heifer , and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place , and it shall be kept for the assembly of the children of Israel for a water of separation : it is a purification for sin .
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And he that hath gathered 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, an everlasting statute.
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He that toucheth a dead person, any dead body of a man, shall be unclean seven days .
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He shall purify himself with it 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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Whoever toucheth a dead person, the dead body of a man that is dead , and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah ; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel ; for the water of separation 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 all 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, shall be unclean .
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And every one that toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields , or a dead person, or the bone of a man, or a grave , shall be unclean seven days .
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And they shall take for the unclean of the ashes of the purification-offering that hath been burned, and shall put running water thereon in a vessel;
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and a clean man shall take hyssop , and dip it in the water , and sprinkle it on the tent , and upon all the utensils , and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that hath touched the bone , or the one slain , or the dead person , or the grave ;
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and the clean shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day , and on the seventh day ; and he shall purify him on the seventh day ; and he shall wash his garments , and bathe himself in water , and shall be clean at even.
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And the man that is unclean , and doth not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation , for he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah : the water of separation hath not been sprinkled on him: he is unclean .
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And it shall be an everlasting statute unto them. And he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his garments , and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
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And whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean ; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.