Chapter 19
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And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying.
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This is the statute of the Torah which the LORD commanded, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel, and they shall take to you a red heifer unblemished, in which there is no defect, which has not come upon it."
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And they shall give you to Eleazar the priest, and he shall take you outside the camp and slaughter you before him.
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Eleazar the priest took some of its blood with his finger and sprinkled it toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
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And he shall burn the cow before his eyes—her skin and her flesh and her blood over her dung. He shall burn it.
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And the priest took cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and threw them into the midst of the burning of the cow.
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And the priest shall wash his garments and wash his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come to the camp, and he is unclean until evening.
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And the burner will wash his garments in water, and he will wash his flesh in water, and he is impure until the evening.
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And a pure man shall gather the ash of the cow and place it outside the camp in a pure place, and it shall be for the sons of Israel for a keeping, for water of impurity, a sin offering.
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And the gatherer shall wash his garments and be ritually impure until evening. And it shall be for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner—the sojourner in your midst—a statute forever.
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The one who contacts a dead body, for any vital life force of Adam/humanity, is ritually impure seven days.
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He will ritual-purify with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be pure. And if he does not ritual-purify on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be pure.
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Everyone touching a dead body in the nephesh of the adam which dies and does not purify himself with the tabernacle of the LORD—unclean, and that nephesh will be cut off from Israel; because water of impurity was not sprinkled on him—he will be unclean; moreover his uncleanness remains in him.
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This is the Torah: when adam dies in the tent, everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent will become ritually impure for seven days.
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And every open vessel that has no binding cord on it is ritually impure.
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And everyone who touches, on the face of the field, a slain-of-sword or a dead or a bone of Adam or a grave will be unclean seven days.
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They shall take for the one who is ritually impure some of the dust from the cultic burning of the sin offering and put it into living waters in a vessel.
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A ritually clean person took hyssop and dipped it in the waters and sprinkled them on the tent and on all the vessels and on the people who were there and on the one who touched a bone or a slain person or a corpse or a grave.
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And the clean one sprinkled on the unclean one on the third day and on the seventh day, and he purified him on the seventh day, and he washed his garments and bathed in water, and he became clean in the evening.
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And a man who becomes unclean and does not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The waters of impurity were not sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
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And it will be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the waters of impurity will wash his garments, and the one who touches the waters of impurity will be unclean until evening.
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Everything that the unclean one touches will become unclean, and the person who touches it will become unclean until evening.