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Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron , saying,
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"This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded : Speak to the children of Israel , that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke.
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You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp , and one shall kill 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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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 evening .
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He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water , and bathe his flesh in water , and shall be unclean until the evening .
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"A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer , and lay them up outside of 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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He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes , and be unclean until the evening : and it shall be to the children of Israel , and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever .
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"He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days :
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the same shall purify himself with water on the third day , and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't purify himself the third day , then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
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Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died , and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh ; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel : because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean ; his uncleanness is yet on him.
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"This is the law when a man dies in a tent : everyone who comes into the tent , and everyone who is in the tent , shall be unclean seven days .
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Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean .
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"Whoever in the open field touches one who 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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"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 on the tent , and on all the vessels , and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone , or the slain , or the dead , or the grave :
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and the clean person shall sprinkle on 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 evening .
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But the man who shall be unclean , and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly , because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh : the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean .
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It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes , and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening .
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"Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean ; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening ."