And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: this is the ordinance
of the law which the LORD commandeth saying: speak unto the children of
Israel and let them take thee a red cow without spot wherein is no
blemish, and which never bare yoke upon her. And ye shall give her unto
Eleazer the priest, and he shall bring her without the host and cause
her to be slain before him. And Eleazar the priest shall take of her
blood upon his finger, and sprinkle it straight toward the tabernacle
of witness seven times. And he shall cause the cow to be burnt in his
sight: both skin, flesh and blood, with the dung also. And let the
priest take cypress wood, and Hyssop and purple cloth, and cast it upon
the cow as she burneth. And let the priest wash his clothes and bathe
his flesh in water, and then come into the host, and the priest shall
be unclean unto the evening. And he that burneth her, shall wash his
clothes in water and bathe his flesh also in water, and be unclean
until evening. And one that is clean, shall go and take up the ashes of
the cow, and put them without the host in a clean place, where they
shall be kept to make sprinkling water for the multitude of the
children of Israel: for it is a sinoffering. And let him that gathereth
the ashes of the cow, wash his clothes, and remain unclean until
evening. And this shall be unto the children of Israel and unto the
stranger that dwelleth among them, a manner for ever. He that twicheth
any dead person, shall be unclean seven days. And he shall purify
himself with the ashes the third day and then he shall be clean the
seventh day. And if he purify not himself the third day, then the
seventh day, he shall not be clean. Whosoever twicheth any person that
dieth and sprinkleth not himself, defileth the dwelling of the LORD:
and therefore that soul shall be rooted out of Israel, because he hath
not sprinkled the sprinkling water upon him, he shall be unclean, and
his uncleanness shall remain upon him. This is the law of the man that
dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent and all that is in the
tent, shall be unclean seven days. And all the vessels that be open
which have no lid nor covering upon them, are unclean. And whosoever
twicheth one that is slain with a sword in the fields, or a dead
person, or a bone of a dead man, or a grave: shall be unclean seven
days. And they shall take for an unclean person, of the burnt ashes of
the sinoffering, and put running water thereto into a vessel. 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 on the souls that were
there, and upon him that twiched a bone or a slain person or a dead
body or a grave. And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean
the third day and the seventh day. And the seventh day he shall purify
himself and wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be
clean at evening. If any be unclean and sprinkle not himself, the same
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