Min Shu Ji_Chapter 19

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

This is a law that the Lord has decreed in the law: Command the Israelites to bring to you a pure red heifer without blemish, without a yoke,

Give it to Eleazar the priest. He will lead it outside the camp, and the ox will be slaughtered before him.

Eleazar the priest is to dip his finger in the blood of the ox and sprinkle it seven times in front of the Tent of Meeting.

People want to burn this cow in front of him. The skin, meat, blood, and feces of cows must be burned.

The priest is to throw cedar wood, hyssop, and vermilion thread into the fire of burning the ox.

The priest shall be unclean until evening, and shall wash his clothes and wash himself with water, and then he may enter the camp.

The person who burns an ox must be unclean until evening, and they must also wash their clothes and wash themselves with water.

There will be a clean person who will collect the ashes of the cow and store them in a clean place outside the camp, to prepare water for the Israelite assembly to remove impurities. This is supposed to be excommunicated.

The person who collects the ashes of cows shall be unclean until evening and shall wash their clothes. This shall be an eternal ordinance for the Israelites and the strangers who reside among them.

Whoever touches a dead body will be unclean for seven days.

On the third day, the person shall purify themselves with this unclean water, and on the seventh day they shall be clean. If he is unclean on the third day, he will be unclean on the seventh day.

Anyone who touches a dead body and defiles themselves will defile the tabernacle of the Lord, and they will be cut off from Israel. Because the water used to cleanse him was not sprinkled on him, he is unclean, and the filth is still on him.

This is the law for a person to die in a tent: whoever enters that tent, and everything inside it, will be unclean for seven days.

Any open vessel without a lid is also unclean.

Whoever touches a person who has been killed by the sword, or a corpse, or a human bone, or a tomb in the field, shall be unclean for seven days.

Take some burnt ashes from the purification of this unclean person and put them in a container, and pour live water over them.

A clean person must take hyssop and dip it in this water, sprinkle it on the tent, all the utensils, and all the people inside the tent, and sprinkle it on the person who touched the bones, or touched the killed, or touched the self dead, or touched the tomb.

On the third and seventh days, the clean person shall sprinkle water on the unclean person, and on the seventh day, he shall be made clean. That person needs to wash clothes, take a bath with water, and be clean at night.

But he who is unclean and unclean shall be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. He is unclean if the water used to remove impurities is not sprinkled on him.

This will serve as an eternal rule for you. And those who sprinkle unclean water must wash their clothes. Anyone who touches contaminated water will be unclean until evening.

Everything touched by an unclean person is unclean. Anyone who touches this thing will be unclean until evening.