1 وكلم الرب موسى وهرون قائلا2 هذه فريضة الشريعة التي امر بها الرب قائلا. كلم بني اسرائيل ان ياخذوا اليك بقرة حمراء صحيحة لا عيب فيها ولم يعل عليها نير3 فتعطونها لألعازار الكاهن فتخرج الى خارج المحلّة وتذبح قدامه.4 ويأخذ ألعازار الكاهن من دمها باصبعه وينضح من دمها الى جهة وجه خيمة الاجتماع سبع مرات.5 وتحرق البقرة امام عينيه. يحرق جلدها ولحمها ودمها مع فرثها.6 ويأخذ الكاهن خشب ارز وزوفا وقرمزا ويطرحهنّ في وسط حريق البقرة.7 ثم يغسل الكاهن ثيابه ويرحض جسده بماء وبعد ذلك يدخل المحلّة ويكون الكاهن نجسا الى المساء.8 والذي احرقها يغسل ثيابه بماء ويرحض جسده بماء ويكون نجسا الى المساء.9 ويجمع رجل طاهر رماد البقرة ويضعه خارج المحلّة في مكان طاهر فتكون لجماعة بني اسرائيل في حفظ ماء نجاسة. انها ذبيحة خطية.10 والذي جمع رماد البقرة يغسل ثيابه ويكون نجسا الى المساء. فتكون لبني اسرائيل وللغريب النازل في وسطهم فريضة دهرية11 من مسّ ميتا ميتة انسان ما يكون نجسا سبعة ايام.12 يتطهر به في اليوم الثالث وفي اليوم السابع يكون طاهرا. وان لم يتطهّر في اليوم الثالث ففي اليوم السابع لا يكون طاهرا.13 كل من مسّ ميتا ميتة انسان قد مات ولم يتطهّر ينجّس مسكن الرب. فتقطع تلك النفس من اسرائيل. لان ماء النجاسة لم يرشّ عليها تكون نجسة. نجاستها لم تزل فيها14 هذه هي الشريعة. اذا مات انسان في خيمة كل من دخل الخيمة وكل من كان في الخيمة يكون نجسا سبعة ايام.15 وكل اناء مفتوح ليس عليه سداد بعصابة فانه نجس.16 وكل من مسّ على وجه الصحراء قتيلا بالسيف او ميتا او عظم انسان او قبرا يكون نجسا سبعة ايام.17 فيأخذون للنجس من غبار حريق ذبيحة الخطية ويجعل عليه ماء حيّا في اناء.18 ويأخذ رجل طاهر زوفا ويغمسها في الماء وينضحه على الخيمة وعلى جميع الامتعة وعلى الانفس الذين كانوا هناك وعلى الذي مسّ العظم او القتيل او الميت او القبر.19 ينضح الطاهر على النجس في اليوم الثالث واليوم السابع. ويطهّره في اليوم السابع فيغسل ثيابه ويرحض بماء فيكون طاهرا في المساء.20 واما الانسان الذي يتنجّس ولا يتطهّر فتباد تلك النفس من بين الجماعة لانه نجّس مقدس الرب. ماء النجاسة لم يرش عليه. انه نجس.21 فتكون لهم فريضة دهرية. والذي رشّ ماء النجاسة يغسل ثيابه والذي مسّ ماء النجاسة يكون نجسا الى المساء.22 وكل ما مسّه النجس يتنجّس والنفس التي تمسّ تكون نجسة الى المساء

1 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and on which never came yoke:3 And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may 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 of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation 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 middle 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 burns 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 of separation: it is a purification for sin.10 And he that gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger that sojournes among them, for a statute for ever.11 He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.12 He shall purify himself with it 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 Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies not himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.14 This is the law, when a man dies in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.15 And every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.16 And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, 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 on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons that were there, and on him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:19 And the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and 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 among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.21 And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, that he that sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that touches the water of separation shall be unclean until even.22 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.