The Red Heifer
And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
“This is the statute of the instruction that the LORD has commanded, saying: Speak to the sons of Israel, that they take to you a red heifer without blemish, in which there is no defect, on which no yoke has come.
And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest; and she shall be brought outside the camp and slaughtered before him.
And Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.
And the heifer shall be burned before his eyes; her skin and her flesh and her blood, with her dung, shall be burned.
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and throw them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
And the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.
And the one who burned her shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and lay them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel for the water of impurity. It is a sin offering.
And the one who gathered the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the evening. And it shall be for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourns in their midst a statute forever.
Purification of the Unclean
Whoever touches the dead body of any human soul shall be unclean seven days.
He shall purify himself with it on the third day and on the seventh day, and he shall be clean; but if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he shall not be clean.
Whoever touches the dead, the soul of a man who has died, and does not purify himself — he has made the Dwelling of the LORD unclean, and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water of impurity was not dashed on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.
This is the instruction: 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.
And every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.
And whoever in the open field touches one slain by the sword, or one dead, or a human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
And for the unclean they shall take some of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel.
And a clean man shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the souls who were there, and on the one who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.
And the clean shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and he shall purify him on the seventh day, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be clean in the evening.
But a man who is unclean and does not purify himself — that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, for he has made the sanctuary of the LORD unclean. The water of impurity was not dashed on him; he is unclean.
And it shall be for them a statute forever. And the one who sprinkles the water of impurity shall wash his clothes; and whoever touches the water of impurity shall be unclean until the evening.
And whatever the unclean touches shall be unclean; and the soul who touches it shall be unclean until the evening.”