Numbers Chapter 19

Numbers Chapter 19
1 And the Lord spake to Moses, and to
Aaron, saying,
2 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 cow without blemish, wherein
is no spot, upon the which never came
yoke.
3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the
priest, that he may bring her without the
host, and cause her to be slain before his
face.
4 Then shall Eleazar the priest take of
her blood with his finger, and sprinkle it
before the tabernacle of the congregation
seven times,
5 And cause the cow to be burned in his
sight: with her skin, and her flesh, and
her blood, and her dung shall he burn
her.
6 Then shall the priest take cedar wood,
and hyssop and scarlet lace, and cast
them in the midst of the fire where the
cow burneth.
7 Then shall the priest wash his clothes,
and he shall wash his flesh in water, and
then come into the host, and the priest
shall be unclean unto the even. 8 Also he
that burneth her, shall wash his clothes
in water, and wash his flesh in water,
and be unclean until even.
9 And a man, that is clean, shall take up
the ashes of the cow, and put them
without the host in a clean place: and it
shall be kept for the congregation of the
children of Israel for a sprinkling water:
it is a sin offering. 10 Therefore he that
gathereth the ashes of the cow, shall
wash his clothes, and remain unclean
until even: and it shall be unto the
children of Israel, and unto the stranger
that dwelleth among them, a statute
forever.
11 He that toucheth the dead body of any
man, shall be unclean even seven days.
12 He shall purify himself therewith the
third day, and 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.
13 Whosoever toucheth the corpse of
any man that is dead, and purgeth not
himself, defileth the tabernacle of the
Lord, and that person shall be cut off
from Israel, because the sprinkling water
was not sprinkled upon him: he shall be
unclean, and his uncleanness shall
remain still upon him. 14 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,
15 And all the vessels that be open,
which have no covering fastened upon
them, shall be unclean.
16 Also whosoever toucheth one that is
slain with a sword in the field, or a dead
person, or a bone of a dead man, or a
grave, shall be unclean seven days.
17 Therefore for an unclean person they
shall take of the burnt ashes of the sin
offering, and pure water shall be put
thereto in a vessel.
18 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 on the persons that were therein, and
upon him that touched the bone, or the
slain, or the dead, or the grave. 19 And
the clean person shall sprinkle upon the
unclean the third day, and the seventh
day, and he shall purify himself the
seventh day, and wash his clothes, and
wash himself in water, and shall be
clean at even. 20 But the man that is
unclean and purifieth not himself, that
person shall be cut off from among the
congregation, because he hath defiled the
sanctuary of the Lord: and the sprinkling
water hath not been sprinkled upon him:
therefore shall he be unclean.
21 And it shall be a perpetual law unto
them, that he that sprinkleth the
sprinkling water, shall wash his clothes:
also he that toucheth the sprinkling
water, shall be unclean until even.
22 And whatsoever the unclean person
toucheth, shall be unclean: and the
person that toucheth him, shall be
unclean until the even.