Numbers 19

1 And he spoke Yahweh to Moses and to Aaron saying.

Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said,

2 This [is] [the] statute of the law which he has commanded Yahweh saying speak - to [the] people of Israel so they may bring to you a heifer red unblemished which there not in it [is] a blemish which not it has gone up on it a yoke.

“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 And you will give it to Eleazar the priest and he will take out it to from [the] outside of the camp and someone will slaughter it before him.

Give the heifer to Eleazar the priest. He must bring it outside the camp, and someone must kill it in front of him.

4 And he will take Eleazar the priest some of blood its with finger his and he will spatter to before [the] face of [the] tent of meeting some of blood its seven times.

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 And he will burn the heifer to eyes his skin its and flesh its and blood its with offal its he will burn.

Another priest must burn the heifer in his sight. He must burn its hide, flesh, and its blood with its dung.

6 And he will take the priest wood of cedar and hyssop and scarlet of scarlet stuff and he will throw [them] into [the] middle of [the] burning of the heifer.

The priest must take cedarwood, hyssop, and scarlet wool, and throw it all into the middle of the burning heifer.

7 And he will wash clothes his the priest and he will wash body his with water and after he will come into the camp and he will be unclean the priest until the evening.

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 And the [one who] burns it he will wash clothes his with water and he will wash body his with water and he will be unclean until the evening.

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 And he will gather - a man clean [the] ash[es] of the heifer and he will deposit [them] from [the] outside of the camp in a place clean and it will become for [the] congregation of [the] people of Israel something kept to water of impurity [is] a sin offering it.

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 And he will wash the [one who] gathers [the] ash[es] of the heifer clothes his and he will be unclean until the evening and it will become for [the] people of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourns in midst of them a statute of perpetuity.

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 The [one who] touches a dead [body] of every corpse of a person and he will be unclean seven days.

Whoever touches the dead body of any man will be unclean for seven days.

12 He he will purify himself with it on the day third and on the day seventh he will be pure and if not he will purify himself on the day third and on the day seventh not he will be pure.

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 Every [one who] touches a dead [body] [the] corpse of person who he will die and not he will purify himself [the] tabernacle of Yahweh he has made unclean and it will be cut off the person that from Israel for [the] water of impurity not it was sprinkled on him unclean he will be still uncleanness his [will be] on him.

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 This [is] the law anyone if he will die in a tent every [one who] goes into the tent and every [one] who [is] in the tent he will be unclean seven days.

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 And every vessel open which there not [is] a cover of a cord on it [is] unclean it.

Every open container with no cover becomes unclean.

16 And every [one] who he will touch on [the] face of the field [one] slain of a sword or a dead [body] or a bone of a human or a grave he will be unclean seven days.

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 And people will take for the unclean [person] some of [the] dust of [the] burning of the sin offering and he will put on it water living into a vessel.

Do this for the unclean person: Take some ashes from the burnt sin offering and mix them in a jar with fresh water.

18 And he will take hyssop and he will dip [it] in the water a person clean and he will spatter [it] on the tent and on all the vessels and on the people who they were there and on the [one who] touched the bone or the [one] slain or the dead [body] or the grave.

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 And he will spatter [it] the clean [person] on the unclean [person] on the day third and on the day seventh and he will cleanse from sin him on the day seventh and he will wash clothes his and he will wash with water and he will be pure in the evening.

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 And a person who he will be unclean and not he will purify himself and it will be cut off the person that from among the assembly for [the] sanctuary of Yahweh he has made unclean water of impurity not it has been sprinkled on him [is] unclean he.

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 And it will become for them a statute of perpetuity and [the] [one who] spatters [the] water of impurity he will wash clothes his and the [one who] touches [the] water of impurity he will be unclean until the evening.

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 And all that he will touch it the unclean [person] it will be unclean and the person who touches [it] it will be unclean until the evening.

Whatever the unclean person touches will become unclean. The person who touches it will become unclean until evening.”