¹³ Whoever touches one dead, as to the soul of man who is dying, and purges not himself, makes·​·unclean the Habitation of Jehovah, and that^◦ soul shall be cut·​·off from Israel, for the water of isolation was not sprinkled upon him; he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on^◦ him.

²³ And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: