Numbers 19
1 And the
LORD spake unto
Moses and unto
Aaron, saying,
2 This is the
ordinance of the
law which the
LORD hath
commanded,
saying,
Speak unto the
children of
Israel, that they
bring thee a
red heifer without
spot, wherein is no
blemish, and upon which
never came yoke: 3 And ye shall
give her unto
Eleazar the
priest, that he may bring her
forth without the
camp, and one shall
slay her
before his face:
4 And
Eleazar the
priest shall
take of her
blood with his
finger, and
sprinkle of her
blood directly before the
tabernacle of the
congregation seven times: 5 And 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
even. 8 And he that
burneth her shall
wash his
clothes in
water, and
bathe his
flesh in
water, and shall be
unclean until the
even. 9 And a
man that is
clean shall
gather up the
ashes of the
heifer, and lay them
up without the
camp in a
clean place, and it shall be
kept for the
congregation of the
children of
Israel for a
water of
separation: it is a purification for
sin. 10 And he that
gathereth the
ashes of the
heifer shall
wash his
clothes, and be
unclean until the
even: and it shall be unto the
children of
Israel, and unto the
stranger that
sojourneth among them, for a
statute for
ever. 11 He that
toucheth the
dead body of any
man shall be
unclean seven days. 12 He shall
purify himself with it on the
third day, and on the
seventh day he shall be
clean: but if he
purify not himself the
third day, then the
seventh day he shall not be
clean.
13 Whosoever
toucheth the
dead body of any
man that is
dead, and
purifieth not himself,
defileth the
tabernacle of the
LORD; and that
soul shall be cut
off from
Israel: because the
water of
separation was not
sprinkled upon him, he shall be
unclean; his
uncleanness is yet upon him.
14 This is the
law, when a
man dieth in a
tent: all that
come into the
tent, and all that is in the
tent, shall be
unclean seven days. 15 And every
open vessel, which hath no
covering bound upon it, is
unclean. 16 And whosoever
toucheth one that is
slain with a
sword in the
open fields, or a dead
body, or a
bone of a
man, or a
grave, shall be
unclean seven days. 17 And for an
unclean person they shall
take of the
ashes of the burnt
heifer of purification for
sin, 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 upon the
tent, and upon all the
vessels, and upon the
persons that were there, and upon him that
touched a
bone, or one
slain, or one
dead, or a
grave: 19 And the
clean person shall
sprinkle upon the
unclean on the
third day, and on the
seventh day: and on the
seventh day he shall
purify himself, and
wash his
clothes, and
bathe himself in
water, and shall be
clean at
even. 20 But the
man that shall be
unclean, and shall not
purify himself, that
soul shall be cut
off from
among the
congregation, because he hath
defiled the
sanctuary of the
LORD: the
water of
separation hath not been
sprinkled upon him; he is
unclean. 21 And it shall be a
perpetual statute unto them, that he that
sprinkleth the
water of
separation shall
wash his
clothes; and he that
toucheth the
water of
separation shall be
unclean until
even. 22 And whatsoever the
unclean person
toucheth shall be
unclean; and the
soul that
toucheth it shall be
unclean until
even.