¹ Auxskultu la vorton de la Eternulo, ho Izraelidoj; cxar la Eternulo havas jugxan disputon kun la logxantoj de la tero; cxar sur la tero ne ekzistas vero, nek amo, nek konado de Dio.

² Malbenado kaj trompado, mortigado, sxtelado, kaj adultado tre disvastigxis, kaj sangoversxo sekvas sangoversxon.

³ Pro tio ekploros la tero, kaj malfelicxo trafos cxiujn gxiajn logxantojn kaj la bestojn de la kampo kaj la birdojn de la cxielo; ecx la fisxoj de la maro malaperos.

⁴ Sed neniu malpacu, neniu riprocxu; via popolo estas kiel insultantoj de pastro.

⁵ Vi falos meze de la tago, kaj ankaux la profeto falos kun vi en la nokto; kaj Mi pereigos vian patrinon.

⁶ Mia popolo pereos pro tio, ke gxi ne havas scion. CXar vi forpusxis la scion, tial Mi vin forpusxos, ke vi ne plu estu Mia pastro. CXar vi forgesis la instruon de via Dio, tial ankaux Mi forgesos viajn infanojn.

⁷ Ju pli ili multigxas, des pli ili pekas kontraux Mi; ilian honoron Mi faros senhonoreco.

⁸ Per la pekoj de Mia popolo ili sin nutras, kaj al gxia malpieco strebas ilia animo.

⁹ Kaj farigxos al la popolo tiel same, kiel al la pastroj:Mi punos gxin pro gxia konduto, kaj Mi repagos al gxi pro gxiaj agoj.

¹⁰ Ili mangxos kaj ne satigxos, ili malcxastos kaj ne disvastigxos; cxar ili forlasis la Eternulon kaj ne atentas Lin.

¹¹ Malcxastado, vino, kaj mosto forprenas la prudenton.

¹² Mia popolo demandas sian lignon, kaj gxia bastono donas al gxi respondon; cxar la spirito de malcxasteco erarigas ilin, kaj ili malcxastas kontraux sia Dio.

¹³ Sur la supro de montoj ili alportas oferojn, kaj sur montetoj ili incensas sub kverko, poplo, kaj terebintarbo, cxar bona estas ilia ombro. Tial malcxastos viaj filinoj, kaj viaj bofilinoj adultos.

¹⁴ CXu Mi povas ne puni viajn filinojn, se ili malcxastas, kaj viajn bofilinojn, se ili adultas, se ili apartigxas kune kun la malcxastistinoj kaj alportas oferojn kune kun la publikaj virinoj, kaj la malklera popolo pereas?

¹⁵ Se malcxastas vi, ho Izrael, tiam almenaux Jehuda ne kulpigxu; ne iru en Gilgalon, ne iru en Bet-Avenon, kaj ne jxuru:Kiel vivas la Eternulo.

¹⁶ CXar Izrael obstinas, kiel obstina bovino; cxu nun la Eternulo povas pasxti ilin, kiel sxafidon sur vasta pasxtejo?

¹⁷ Efraim aligxis al idoloj; lasu lin.

¹⁸ Abomeninda farigxis ilia drinkado; ili fordonis sin al malcxastado kaj malhonora amo; honto al iliaj protektantoj.

¹⁹ La vento forportos ilin per siaj flugiloj, kaj ili hontos pri siaj oferoj.

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

² "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.

³ 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:

⁴ 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.

⁵ One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

⁶ and the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

⁷ 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.

⁸ He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

⁹ "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.

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

¹² 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.

¹³ 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.

¹⁴ "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.

¹⁵ Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

¹⁶ "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.

¹⁷ "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:

¹⁸ 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:

¹⁹ 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.

²⁰ 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.

²¹ 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.

²² "Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening."