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its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its waste, shall be burned (reduced to ash). <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The priest shall take cedar wood and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>hyssop and scarlet [material] and cast them into the midst of the burning heifer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; and afterward come into the camp, but he shall be [ceremonially] unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now a man who is [ceremonially] clean shall collect the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and the congregation of the Israelites shall keep it for <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>water to remove impurity; it is [to be used for] purification from sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. This shall be a perpetual statute to the Israelites and to the stranger who lives as a resident alien among them. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>‘The one who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>That one shall purify himself from uncleanness with the water [made with the ashes of the burned heifer] 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Whoever touches a corpse, the body of anyone who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from Israel [that is, excluded from the atonement made for them]. Because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>‘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 [ceremonially] unclean for seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Every open container [in the tent], which has no covering tied down on it, is unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Also, anyone in the open field who touches one who has been killed with a sword or who has died [of natural causes], or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for the purification from sin, and running water shall be added to them in a container. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>A clean person shall take <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the people who were there, and on the one who touched the bone or the one who was killed or the one who died [naturally] or the grave. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the clean person shall sprinkle [the water for purification] on the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day the unclean man shall purify himself, and wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be [ceremonially] clean at evening. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>‘But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water for purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So it shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity [on another] shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Furthermore, anything the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be [ceremonially] unclean until evening.’”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> I.e. an aromatic plant.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> The purpose of the ash mixed with water was to remove the contamination from those defiled because of contact with a dead body.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> I.e. an aromatic plant used in bunches for sprinkling rites.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../numbers/18.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 18"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 18" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/20.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 20"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 20" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>