Numbers 19
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
2 “This is the ritual that the Lord has appointed for a victim. Instruct the sons of Israel, so that they may bring to you a red cow of full maturity, in which there is no blemish, and which has not carried a yoke.
「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。
3 And you shall deliver it to Eleazar the priest, who, having led it out beyond the camp, shall immolate it in the sight of all.
你們應將牛交給厄肋阿匝爾司祭，牽到營外，在他面前殺了。
4 And dipping his finger in its blood, he shall sprinkle it seven times, opposite the door of the tabernacle.
厄肋阿匝爾用手指蘸些牛血，七次向會幕的前面灑血。
5 And he shall burn it, while all are watching, delivering into the flame, not only its skin and flesh, but also the blood and dung.
以後在他眼前將牛焚燒；牛的皮、肉、血連糞，一起焚燒。
6 Likewise, cedar wood, and hyssop, and twice-dyed scarlet he shall cast into the flame, by which the cow is consumed.
同時司祭應取香柏木、牛膝草和朱紅線，扔在燒牛的火內。
7 And then finally, having washed his garments and his body, he shall enter into the camp, and he shall be deeply stained until evening.
以後司祭應洗自己的衣服，用水洗身，然後才可以回營。
8 Then he also who had burned it shall wash his garments and his body, and he shall be unclean until evening.
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。
9 Then a clean man shall gather the ashes of the cow, and he shall pour them out beyond the camp, in a very pure place, so that they may be preserved for the multitude of the sons of Israel, and for the water of aspersion, because the cow was burned for sin.
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。
10 And when he who had carried the ashes of the cow will have washed his garments, he shall be unclean until evening. The sons of Israel, and the newcomers who live among them, shall have this as a holy and perpetual right.
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。
11 Whoever touches the corpse of a man, and is, because of this, unclean for seven days,
凡摸了任何人屍體的，七天之久不潔。
12 shall be sprinkled from this water on the third and seventh days, and so shall he be cleansed. But if he was not sprinkled on the third day, he is not able to be cleansed on the seventh.
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。
13 Anyone who will have touched the dead body of a human life, and who has not been sprinkled with this mixture, pollutes the tabernacle of the Lord, and he shall perish out of Israel. For not having been sprinkled with the water of expiation, he shall be unclean, and his filth shall remain upon him.
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。
14 This is the law of a man who dies in a tent. All who enter into his tent, and all the vessels which are there, shall be polluted for seven days.
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；
15 The vessel that has no cover or binding over it shall be unclean.
一切開著口，沒有蓋上蓋的器皿，都成了不潔的。
16 If anyone in the field will have touched the corpse of a man, who was killed or who died on his own, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean for seven days.
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。
17 And they shall take some of the ashes from the burning and the sin offering, and they shall pour living waters over them into a vessel.
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。
18 And into it a man who is clean shall dip hyssop, and he shall sprinkle from it the entire tent, and all its articles, and the men who were polluted by means of contact.
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。
19 And so, in this manner, what is clean shall purify what is unclean, on the third and seventh days. And having been expiated on the seventh day, he shall wash both himself and his garments, and he shall be unclean until evening.
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。
20 If anyone has not been expiated by this ritual, his soul shall perish from the midst of the Church. For he has polluted the Sanctuary of the Lord, and he has not been sprinkled with purifying waters.
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。
21 This precept shall be an everlasting ordinance. Likewise, the one who has sprinkled the waters shall wash his garments. All who will have touched the waters of expiation shall be unclean until evening.
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。
22 Whatever has been touched by something unclean will itself be made unclean. And the soul who touches any of these things shall become unclean until evening.”
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」。
