1 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, Compare verse
2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and on which never came yoke: Compare verse2 commentaries
3 And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: Compare verse
4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times: Compare verse
5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: Compare verse
6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer. Compare verse
7 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. Compare verse
8 And he that burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. Compare verse
9 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 of separation: it is a purification for sin. Compare verse1 commentary
10 And he that gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger that sojournes among them, for a statute for ever. Compare verse
11 He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
13 Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies not himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him. Compare verse
14 This is the law, when a man dies in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. Compare verse
16 And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. Compare verse
17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: Compare verse
18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons that were there, and on him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: Compare verse
19 And the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. Compare verse
20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. Compare verse
21 And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, that he that sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that touches the water of separation shall be unclean until even. Compare verse
22 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even. Compare verse