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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses , and unto Aaron , saying,
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`This [is] a statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded , saying, Speak unto the sons of Israel , and they bring unto thee a red cow , a perfect one, in which there is no blemish, on which no yoke hath gone up;
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and ye have given it unto Eleazar the priest, and he hath brought it out unto the outside of the camp , and hath slaughtered it before him.
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`And Eleazar the priest hath taken of its blood with his finger , and hath sprinkled over-against the front of the tent of meeting of her blood seven times;
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and [one] hath burnt the cow before his eyes ; her skin , and her flesh , and her blood , besides her dung, he doth burn;
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and the priest hath taken cedar wood , and hyssop , and scarlet , and hath cast unto the midst of the burning of the cow ;
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and the priest hath washed his garments , and hath bathed his flesh with water , and afterwards doth come in unto the camp , and the priest is unclean till the evening ;
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and he who is burning it doth wash his garments with water , and hath bathed his flesh with water , and is unclean till the evening .
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`And a clean man hath gathered the ashes of the cow , and hath placed at the outside of the camp , in a clean place , and it hath become to the company of the sons of Israel a charge for waters of separation -- it [is] a [cleansing];
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and he who is gathering the ashes of the heifer hath washed his garments , and is unclean till the evening ; and it hath been to the sons of Israel , and to the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst , for a statute age-during.
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`He who is coming against the dead body of any man -- is unclean seven days ;
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he doth cleanse himself for it on the third day , and on the seventh day he is clean; and if he cleanse not himself on the third day , then on the seventh day he is not clean.
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Any one who is coming against the dead , against the body of man who dieth , and cleanseth not himself -- the tabernacle of Jehovah he hath defiled, and that person hath been cut off from Israel , for water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean ; his uncleanness [is] still upon him.
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`This [is] the law, when a man dieth in a tent : every one who is coming in unto the tent , and all that [is] in the tent , is unclean seven days ;
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and every open vessel which hath no covering of thread upon it is unclean .
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`And every one who cometh, on the face of the field , against the pierced of a sword , or against the dead , or against a bone of man, or against a grave , is unclean seven days ;
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and they have taken for the unclean person of the ashes of the burning of the [cleansing], and he hath put upon it running water unto a vessel;
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and a clean person hath taken hyssop , and hath dipped [it] in water , and hath sprinkled on the tent , and on all the vessels , and on the persons who have been there, and on him who is coming against a bone , or against one pierced, or against the dead , or against a grave .
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`And the clean hath sprinkled [it] on the unclean on the third day , and on the seventh day , and hath cleansed him on the seventh day , and he hath washed his garments , and hath bathed with water , and hath been clean in the evening .
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`And the man who is unclean , and doth not cleanse himself, even that person hath been cut off from the midst of the assembly ; for the sanctuary of Jehovah he hath defiled; water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he [is] unclean .
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`And it hath been to them for a statute age-during, that he who is sprinkling the water of separation doth wash his garments , and he who is coming against the water of separation is unclean till the evening ,
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and all against which the unclean person cometh is unclean , and the person who is coming against [it] is unclean till the evening .'