1The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron,…
2“This is the statute of the law which…
3You shall give her to Eleazar the priest,…
4Eleazar the priest shall take some of her…
5One shall burn the heifer in his sight;…
6The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and…
7Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and…
8He who burns her shall wash his clothes…
9“A man who is clean shall gather up…
10He who gathers the ashes of the heifer…
11“He who touches the dead body of any…
12He shall purify himself with water on the…
13Whoever touches a dead person, the body of…
14“This is the law when a man dies…
15Every open vessel, which has no covering bound…
16“Whoever in the open field touches one who…
17“For the unclean, they shall take of the…
18A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it…
19The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean…
20But the man who shall be unclean, and…
21It shall be a perpetual statute to them.…
22“Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean;…
