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Numbers 19 |
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, |
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This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath
commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they
bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and
upon which never came yoke: |
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And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may
bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before
his face: |
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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: |
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And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her
flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: |
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And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and
scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the
heifer. |
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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. |
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And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and
bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the
even. |
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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. |
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And he that gathereth 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, for a statute for ever. |
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He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean
seven days. |
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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. |
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Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and
purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and
that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of
separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his
uncleanness is yet upon him. |
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This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come
into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean
seven days. |
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And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it,
is unclean. |
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And whosoever toucheth 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. |
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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: |
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And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the
water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels,
and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a
bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: |
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And the clean person shall sprinkle upon 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. |
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But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify
himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation,
because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of
separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean. |
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And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that
sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he
that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until
even. |
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And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean;
and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even. |