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And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron , saying:
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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:
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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:
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And dipping his finger in her blood , shall sprinkle it over against the door of the tabernacle seven times,
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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.
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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.
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And then after washing his garments , and body, he shall enter into the camp , and shall be unclean until the evening .
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He also that hath burned her, shall wash his garments , and his body, and shall be unclean until the evening .
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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 .
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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.
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He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days ,
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be unclean .
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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 .
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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.
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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:
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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 .
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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.
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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 .
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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 .