1 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés e a Arão: 2 Esta é uma prescrição da lei que o Senhor ordenou, dizendo: Dize aos filhos de Israel que vos tragam uma novilha vermelha, perfeita, sem defeito, que não tenha ainda levado jugo. 3 Entregá-la-eis a Eleazar, o sacerdote; este a tirará para fora do arraial, e será imolada diante dele. 4 Eleazar, o sacerdote, tomará do sangue com o dedo e dele aspergirá para a frente da tenda da congregação sete vezes. 5 À vista dele, será queimada a novilha; o couro, a carne, o sangue e o excremento, tudo se queimará. 6 E o sacerdote, tomando pau de cedro, hissopo e estofo carmesim, os lançará no meio do fogo que queima a novilha. 7 Então, o sacerdote lavará as vestes, e banhará o seu corpo em água, e, depois, entrará no arraial, e será imundo até à tarde. 8 Também o que a queimou lavará as suas vestes com água, e em água banhará o seu corpo, e imundo será até à tarde. 9 Um homem limpo ajuntará a cinza da novilha e a depositará fora do arraial, num lugar limpo, e será ela guardada para a congregação dos filhos de Israel, para a água purificadora; é oferta pelo pecado. 10 O que apanhou a cinza da novilha lavará as vestes e será imundo até à tarde; isto será por estatuto perpétuo aos filhos de Israel e ao estrangeiro que habita no meio deles.

11 Aquele que tocar em algum morto, cadáver de algum homem, imundo será sete dias. 12 Ao terceiro dia e ao sétimo dia, se purificará com esta água e será limpo; mas, se ao terceiro dia e ao sétimo não se purificar, não será limpo. 13 Todo aquele que tocar em algum morto, cadáver de algum homem, e não se purificar, contamina o tabernáculo do Senhor; essa pessoa será eliminada de Israel; porque a água purificadora não foi aspergida sobre ele, imundo será; está nele ainda a sua imundícia. 14 Esta é a lei quando morrer algum homem em alguma tenda: todo aquele que entrar nessa tenda e todo aquele que nela estiver serão imundos sete dias. 15 Também todo vaso aberto, sobre que não houver tampa amarrada, será imundo. 16 Todo aquele que, no campo aberto, tocar em alguém que for morto pela espada, ou em outro morto, ou nos ossos de algum homem, ou numa sepultura será imundo sete dias. 17 Para o imundo, pois, tomarão da cinza da queima da oferta pelo pecado e sobre esta cinza porão água corrente, num vaso. 18 Um homem limpo tomará hissopo, e o molhará naquela água, e a aspergirá sobre aquela tenda, e sobre todo utensílio, e sobre as pessoas que ali estiverem; como também sobre aquele que tocar nos ossos, ou em alguém que foi morto, ou que faleceu, ou numa sepultura. 19 O limpo aspergirá sobre o imundo ao terceiro e sétimo dias; purificá-lo-á ao sétimo dia; e aquele que era imundo lavará as suas vestes, e se banhará na água, e à tarde será limpo.

20 No entanto, quem estiver imundo e não se purificar, esse será eliminado do meio da congregação, porquanto contaminou o santuário do Senhor; água purificadora sobre ele não foi aspergida; é imundo. 21 Isto lhes será por estatuto perpétuo; e o que aspergir a água purificadora lavará as suas vestes, e o que tocar a água purificadora será imundo até à tarde. 22 Tudo o que o imundo tocar também será imundo; e quem o tocar será imundo até à tarde.

1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke. 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: 4 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. 5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: 6 and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. 8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering. 10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days: 12 the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on 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 a dead person, the body of a man that hath died, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

14 This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean. 16 And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 17 And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and running 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 upon the persons that were there, 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 on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water for impurity hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean. 21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them: and he that sprinkleth the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he that toucheth the water for impurity shall be unclean until even. 22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:

2 "This is a requirement of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke.

3 Give it to Eleazar the priest; it is to be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

4 Then Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting.

5 While he watches, the heifer is to be burned —its hide, flesh, blood and intestines.

6 The priest is to take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.

7 After that, the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water. He may then come into the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean till evening.

8 The man who burns it must also wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he too will be unclean till evening.

9 "A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They are to be kept by the Israelite community for use in the water of cleansing; it is for purification from sin.

10 The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he too will be unclean till evening. This will be a lasting ordinance both for the Israelites and for the foreigners residing among them.

11 "Whoever touches a human corpse will be unclean for seven days.

12 They must purify themselves with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then they will be clean. But if they do not purify themselves on the third and seventh days, they will not be clean.

13 If they fail to purify themselves after touching a human corpse, they defile the LORD's tabernacle. They must be cut off from Israel. Because the water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, they are unclean; their uncleanness remains on them.

14 "This is the law that applies when a person dies in a tent: Anyone who enters the tent and anyone who is in it will be unclean for seven days,

15 and every open container without a lid fastened on it will be unclean.

16 "Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

17 "For the unclean person, put some ashes from the burned purification offering into a jar and pour fresh water over them.

18 Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.

19 The man who is clean is to sprinkle those who are unclean on the third and seventh days, and on the seventh day he is to purify them. Those who are being cleansed must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and that evening they will be clean.

20 But if those who are unclean do not purify themselves, they must be cut off from the community, because they have defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, and they are unclean.

21 This is a lasting ordinance for them. "The man who sprinkles the water of cleansing must also wash his clothes, and anyone who touches the water of cleansing will be unclean till evening.

22 Anything that an unclean person touches becomes unclean, and anyone who touches it becomes unclean till evening."