Numbers 19
1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
2 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 blemish, wherein is no defect, and upon which never came 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 ye shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp, and one shall slaughter it before him.
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 Eleazar the priest shall take of its blood with his finger, and shall sprinkle of its blood directly before the tent of meeting seven times.
厄肋阿匝爾用手指蘸些牛血，七次向會幕的前面灑血。
5 And one shall burn the heifer before his eyes; its skin and its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall he burn.
以後在他眼前將牛焚燒；牛的皮、肉、血連糞，一起焚燒。
6 And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
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 the priest shall wash his garments, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until the even;
以後司祭應洗自己的衣服，用水洗身，然後才可以回營。
8 and he that hath burned it shall wash his garments in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
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 And a clean man shall gather the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the assembly of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification 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 he that hath gathered 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, an everlasting statute.
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 He that toucheth a dead person, any dead body of a man, shall be unclean seven days.
凡摸了任何人屍體的，七天之久不潔。
12 He shall purify himself with it 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.
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 Whoever toucheth a dead person, the dead body of a man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; for the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him: he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet 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, when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean 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 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.
一切開著口，沒有蓋上蓋的器皿，都成了不潔的。
16 And every one that toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead person, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean 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 for the unclean of the ashes of the purification-offering that hath been burned, and shall put running water thereon in 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 a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and upon all the utensils, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that hath touched the bone, or the one slain, or the dead person, or the grave;
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 the clean shall sprinkle it 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 garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
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 And the man that is unclean, and doth not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, for he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled on him: he is unclean.
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 And it shall be an everlasting statute unto them. And he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his garments, and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
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 And whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
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」。
