1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,2 This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put:3 Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him.4 Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the front of the Tent of meeting:5 And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned:6 Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.7 And the priest, after washing his clothing and bathing his body in water, may come back to the tent-circle, and will be unclean till evening.8 And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.9 Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering.10 And he who takes up the dust of the burned cow is to have his clothing washed with water and be unclean till evening: this is to be a law for ever, for the children of Israel as well as for the man from another country who is living among them.11 Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:12 On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make himself clean with the water, and so he will be clean: but if he does not do this on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.13 Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged.14 This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days.15 And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.16 And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.17 And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel:18 And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched.19 Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening.20 But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.21 This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.22 Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.

1 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron, dicens : 2 Ista est religio victim, quam constituit Dominus. Prcipe filiis Isral, ut adducant ad te vaccam rufam tatis integr, in qua nulla sit macula, nec portaverit jugum : 3 tradetisque eam Eleazaro sacerdoti, qui eductam extra castram, immolabit in conspectu omnium : 4 et tingens digitum in sanguine ejus, asperget contra fores tabernaculi septem vicibus, 5 comburetque eam cunctis videntibus, tam pelle et carnibus ejus quam sanguine et fimo flamm traditis. 6 Lignum quoque cedrinum, et hyssopum, coccumque bis tinctum sacerdos mittet in flammam, qu vaccam vorat. 7 Et tunc demum, lotis vestibus et corpore suo, ingredietur in castra, commaculatusque erit usque ad vesperum. 8 Sed et ille qui combusserit eam, lavabit vestimenta sua et corpus, et immundus erit usque ad vesperum. 9 Colliget autem vir mundus cineres vacc, et effundet eos extra castra in loco purissimo, ut sint multitudini filiorum Isral in custodiam, et in aquam aspersionis : quia pro peccato vacca combusta est. 10 Cumque laverit qui vacc portaverat cineres vestimenta sua, immundus erit usque ad vesperum. Habebunt hoc filii Isral, et adven qui habitant inter eos, sanctum jure perpetuo.11 Qui tetigerit cadaver hominis, et propter hoc septem diebus fuerit immundus, 12 aspergetur ex hac aqua die tertio et septimo, et sic mundabitur. Si die tertio aspersus non fuerit, septimo non poterit emundari. 13 Omnis qui tetigerit human anim morticinum, et aspersus hac commistione non fuerit, polluet tabernaculum Domini et peribit ex Isral : quia aqua expiationis non est aspersus, immundus erit, et manebit spurcitia ejus super eum. 14 Ista est lex hominis qui moritur in tabernaculo : omnes qui ingrediuntur tentorium illius, et universa vasa qu ibi sunt, polluta erunt septem diebus. 15 Vas, quod non habuerit operculum nec ligaturam desuper, immundum erit. 16 Si quis in agro tetigerit cadaver occisi hominis, aut per se mortui, sive os illius, vel sepulchrum, immundus erit septem diebus. 17 Tollentque de cineribus combustionis atque peccati, et mittent aquas vivas super eos in vas : 18 in quibus cum homo mundus tinxerit hyssopum, asperget ex eo omne tentorium, et cunctam supellectilem, et homines hujuscemodi contagione pollutos : 19 atque hoc modo mundus lustrabit immundum tertio et septimo die : expiatusque die septimo, lavabit et se et vestimenta sua, et immundus erit usque ad vesperum. 20 Si quis hoc ritu non fuerit expiatus, peribit anima illius de medio ecclesi : quia sanctuarium Domini polluit, et non est aqua lustrationis aspersus. 21 Erit hoc prceptum legitimum sempiternum. Ipse quoque qui aspergit aquas, lavabit vestimenta sua. Omnis qui tetigerit aquas expiationis, immundus erit usque ad vesperum. 22 Quidquid tetigerit immundus, immundum faciet : et anima, qu horum quippiam tetigerit, immunda erit usque ad vesperum.