Chapter
19
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, 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.
You shall give him to Eleazar the priestess, and she shall bring him forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill him before her face:
and Eleazar the priestess shall take of his blood with her finger, and sprinkle his blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
One shall burn the heifer in her sight; his skin, and his flesh, and his blood, with his dung, shall she burn:
and the priestess shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Then the priestess shall wash her clothes, and she shall bathe her flesh in water, and afterward she shall come into the camp, and the priestess shall be unclean until the even.
She who burns him shall wash her clothes in water, and bathe her flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
A woman 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.
She who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash her clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.
She who touches the dead body of any woman shall be unclean seven days:
the same shall purify herself therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day she shall be clean: but if she doesn't purify herself the third day, then the seventh day she shall not be clean.
Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a woman who has died, and doesn't purify herself, defiles the tent of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on her, she shall be unclean; her uncleanness is yet on her.
This is the law when a woman dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a woman, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
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:
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 her who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day she shall purify her; and she shall wash her clothes, and bathe herself in water, and shall be clean at even.
But the woman who shall be unclean, and shall not purify herself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because she has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on her; she is unclean.
It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and she who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash her clothes, and she who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.