民數記 19
1 上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said,
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 a statute, a law which I am commanding you: Say to the people of Israel that they must bring to you a red heifer without flaw or blemish, and which has never carried a 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。
Give the heifer to Eleazar the priest. He must bring it outside the camp, and someone must kill it in front of him.
4 厄肋阿匝爾用手指蘸些牛血，七次向會幕的前面灑血。
Eleazar the priest must take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting.
5 以後在他眼前將牛焚燒；牛的皮、肉、血連糞，一起焚燒。
Another priest must burn the heifer in his sight. He must burn its hide, flesh, and its blood with its dung.
6 同時司祭應取香柏木、牛膝草和朱紅線，扔在燒牛的火內。
The priest must take cedarwood, hyssop, and scarlet wool, and throw it all into the middle of the burning 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 he must wash his clothes and bathe in water. Then he may come into the camp, where he will remain unclean until the evening.
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。
The one who has burned the heifer must wash his clothes in water and bathe in water. He will remain unclean until the evening.
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。
Someone who is clean must gather up the heifer's ashes and put them outside the camp in a clean place. These ashes must be kept for the community of the people of Israel. They will mix the ashes with water for purification from sin, since the ashes were from 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。
The one who gathered the heifer's ashes must wash his clothes. He will remain unclean until the evening. This will be a permanent law for the people of Israel and the foreigners who stay with them.
11 凡摸了任何人屍體的，七天之久不潔。
Whoever touches the dead body of any man will be unclean for 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。
Such a person must purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day. Then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself the third day, then he will not be clean on the seventh day.
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。
Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself—this person defiles Yahweh's tabernacle. That person must be cut off from Israel because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him. He will remain unclean; his uncleanness will remain on 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 for when someone dies in a tent. Everyone who goes into the tent and everyone who is already in the tent will be unclean for seven days.
15 一切開著口，沒有蓋上蓋的器皿，都成了不潔的。
Every open container with no cover becomes 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。
Similarly, anyone outside a tent who touches someone who has been killed with a sword, any other dead body, a human bone, or a grave—that person will be unclean for 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。
Do this for the unclean person: Take some ashes from the burnt sin offering and mix them in a jar with fresh water.
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。
Someone who is clean must then take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the containers inside the tent, on the persons who were there, and on anyone who touched the bone, the one who was killed, the one who died, 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。
On the third day and on the seventh day, the clean person must sprinkle the unclean person. On the seventh day the unclean person must purify himself. He must wash his clothes and bathe in water. At evening he will become clean.
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 anyone who remains unclean, who refuses to purify himself—that person will be cut off from the community, because he has defiled Yahweh's sanctuary. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he remains 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。
This will be an ongoing law concerning these situations. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity must wash his clothes. The one who touches the water for impurity will become unclean until evening.
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」。
Whatever the unclean person touches will become unclean. The person who touches it will become unclean until evening.”
