民數記 19
1 上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2 「這是上主製定的法律，衪這樣命令你：你吩咐以色列子民，給你牽一頭無瑕，身上沒有殘缺，且沒有負過軛的紅母牛來。
This is the statute of the law which Jehovah 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 你們應將牛交給厄肋阿匝爾司祭，牽到營外，在他面前殺了。
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
4 厄肋阿匝爾用手指蘸些牛血，七次向會幕的前面灑血。
and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
5 以後在他眼前將牛焚燒；牛的皮、肉、血連糞，一起焚燒。
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
6 同時司祭應取香柏木、牛膝草和朱紅線，扔在燒牛的火內。
and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
7 以後司祭應洗自己的衣服，用水洗身，然後才可以回營。
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 那焚燒牛的人，也應洗自己的衣服，用水洗身，但直到晚上仍然不潔。
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 另一位潔淨的人收起牛灰，放在在營外潔淨的地方，為以色列子民會眾留下取潔水之用，因為這原是贖罪祭。
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 for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
10 那收斂牛灰的人，應洗自己的衣服，直到晚上不潔；這為以色列子民和僑居在你們中的外方人，是一條永久的法律。
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 凡摸了任何人屍體的，七天之久不潔。
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
12 第三日和第日，他應用那水取潔，他才潔淨；若在第三日和第七日不取潔，他仍然不潔。
the same shall purify himself therewith 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 任何人摸了屍首，即死人的身體，而不取潔，便玷污了上主的居所，這人應由以色列中剷除，因為取潔水沒有灑在他身上，他仍然不潔，不潔仍留在他身上。
Whosoever toucheth a dead person, the body of a man that hath died, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
14 幾時在帳幕內死了一人，有這樣的規定：凡進這帳幕和所有在帳幕的人，七天之久不潔；
This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15 一切開著口，沒有蓋上蓋的器皿，都成了不潔的。
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
16 凡在田野門，摸了一個為刀所害，或自死的人，或人的骨骸，或墳墓的人，七天之久不潔。
And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
17 為這樣不潔的人，應取些贖罪祭燒成的灰，放在在一器皿內，倒上活水。
And 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:
18 然後一潔淨的人拿牛膝草浸入水內，灑在帳幕上和其內的一切器皿並人身上，以及灑在那摸過骨骸或疲害死的，或自死的，或墳墓的人身卡。
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 the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
19 那潔淨的人應在第三日第七日上，灑那人不潔淨的人，到第七日才能使他潔淨；那人還應洗自己的衣服，在水中沐浴，到晚上就潔淨了。
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 him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
20 誰成了不潔的而不取潔，這人應由會眾中剷除，因為他玷污了上主的聖所，因取潔水沒有灑在他身上，他仍然不潔。
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water for impurity hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
21 這為你們是一條永久的法律。那灑取潔水的，應洗自己的衣服；凡觸摸取潔水的，直到晚上不潔。
And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them: and he that sprinkleth the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he that toucheth the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
22 凡不潔的人摸過的東西，也成了不潔的；與之接觸的人，也直到晚上不潔」。
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
