Numbers 19:11-22
Read Numbers 19 in full →11‘aThe one who touches the corpse of any 1person shall be unclean for seven days. 12‘That one shall apurify himself from uncleanness with 1the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and then he will be clean; but if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean. 13‘aAnyone who touches a corpse, the 1body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself, 2,bmakes the 3tabernacle of Yahweh unclean; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not 4,csplashed on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
14‘This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean for seven days. 15‘And every open vessel, which has no covering 1tied down on it, shall be unclean. 16‘aAlso, anyone who in the open field touches one who has been slain with a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days. 17‘Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the 1ashes of the 2burnt 3,apurification from sin and 4flowing water shall be 5added to them in a vessel. 18‘And a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on the one who touched the bone or the one slain or the one dying naturally or the grave. 19‘Then the clean person ashall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify him from uncleanness, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and shall be clean by evening.
20‘But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself from uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly because he has 1,amade the sanctuary of Yahweh unclean; the water for impurity has not been 2splashed on him; he is unclean. 21‘So it shall be a perpetual statute for them. And he awho sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening. 22‘aFurthermore, anything that the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.’”
