1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to 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 blemish, wherein is no defect, and upon which never came yoke;
3 and ye shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp, and one shall slaughter it before him.
4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of its blood with his finger, and shall sprinkle of its blood directly before the tent of meeting seven times.
5 And one shall burn the heifer before his eyes; its skin and its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall he burn.
6 And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
7 And the priest shall wash his garments, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until the even;
8 and he that hath burned it shall wash his garments in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
9 And a clean man shall gather the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the assembly of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
10 And he that hath gathered 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, an everlasting statute.
11 He that toucheth a dead person, any dead body of a 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 toucheth a dead person, the dead body of a man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; for the water of separation 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 all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.
16 And every one that toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead person, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
17 And they shall take for the unclean of the ashes of the purification-offering that hath been burned, and shall put running water thereon in a vessel;
18 and a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and upon all the utensils, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that hath touched the bone, or the one slain, or the dead person, or the grave;
19 and the clean shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day; and he shall purify him on the seventh day; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
20 And the man that is unclean, and doth not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, for he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled on him: he is unclean.
21 And it shall be an everlasting statute unto them. And he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his garments, and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
22 And whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
1 耶和华对摩西和亚伦说：
2 "耶和华所定的律法是这样说： 你要吩咐以色列人， 把一头完全、没有残疾、未曾负过轭的红母牛， 牵到你这里来。
3 你们要把牛交给以利亚撒祭司， 他就要把牛牵到营外， 在他面前把牛宰了。
4 以利亚撒祭司要用指头蘸牛血， 向会幕前面洒七次。
5 然后， 在他面前把牛焚烧， 牛的皮、肉、血和粪， 都要焚烧。
6 祭司要把香柏木、牛膝草、朱红色线， 都丢在烧牛的火中。
7 祭司要洗自己的衣服， 并用水洗身， 然后才可以进营； 但祭司必不洁净到晚上。
8 那烧牛的人也要用水洗自己的衣服， 并用水洗身， 也必不洁净到晚上。
9 要由一个洁净的人收起母牛的灰， 安放在营外洁净的地方， 为以色列会众留作除污秽的水， 这是除罪的。
10 那收起牛灰的人， 要洗自己的衣服， 必不洁净到晚上。这要给以色列人和寄居在他们中间的外人， 作永远的定例。
11 "摸了任何死尸的， 必不洁净七天。
12 那人在第三天要用这样除污秽的水洁净自己， 到第七天他就洁净了； 如果他在第三天不洁净自己， 到第七天他就不洁净了。
13 任何人摸了死尸， 而不洁净自己的， 就玷污了耶和华的帐幕， 这人必要从以色列中剪除， 因为这除污秽的水没有洒在他身上， 所以他必不洁净； 他的不洁还留在他身上。
14 "如果人在会幕里死了， 条例是这样的： 进这会幕的和一切在会幕里的， 都必不洁净七天。
15 一切敞口的器皿， 就是没有盖上盖的， 都是不洁净的。
16 在田间摸了被刀杀死的， 或是自己死的尸体， 或是人的骨头， 或是坟墓， 就必不洁净七天。
17 人要为这不洁净的人， 拿些烧成的除罪灰， 放在器皿里， 倒上活水。
18 要由一个洁净的人， 拿牛膝草蘸在这水里， 把水洒在会幕上和一切器皿， 以及在那里的众人身上， 又洒在摸了骨头， 或是摸了被杀死的， 或是摸了坟墓的人身上。
19 第三天和第七天， 那洁净的人要洒水在不洁净的人身上， 这样到第七天就使他洁净； 他要洗自己的衣服， 用水洗身， 到晚上就洁净了。
20 "但那污秽而不洁净自己的， 那人必从会众中被剪除， 因为他玷污了耶和华的圣所； 除污秽的水没有洒在他身上， 他是不洁净的。
21 这要给你们作永远的定例。那洒了除污秽水的人， 要洗自己的衣服； 那摸了除污秽水的， 必不洁净到晚上。
22 不洁净的人摸过的一切， 必不洁净； 摸了这物的人， 也必不洁净到晚上。"