Números 19

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked. 3 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face. 4 Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times. 5 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn. 6 The priest shall take cedar wood, 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 evening. 8 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

9 "A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for use in water for cleansing impurity. It is a sin offering. 10 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.

11 "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. 13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles Yahweh’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity 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: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 15 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

16 "Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

17 "For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel. 18 A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave. 19 The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening. 20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean. 21 It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

22 "Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening."

Ngā Pungarehu o te Kūao Kau Uha Whero

1 I kōrero anō a Ihowā ki a Mohi rāua ko Ārona, i mea: 2 "Ko te tikanga tēnei o te ture i whakahaua e Ihowā, i mea ia: Kōrero ki ngā tama a Īharaira kia tīkina he kūao kau uha, he mea whero māu, hei te mea kāhore he nawe, kāhore he koha, ā, kāhore anō hoki i utaina ki te ioka. 3 Me hoatu e koutou ki a Ereātara, tohunga, māna ia e kawe ki waho o te puni, me patu hoki e tētahi ki tōna aroaro. 4 Nā, ka tango a Ereātara, tohunga, i tētahi wāhi o ōna toto ki tōna maihao, kia whitu ana tāuhiuhinga i ōna toto ki te roro tonu o te tapenākara o te whakaminenga. 5 Nā, mā tētahi e tahu te kau i tāna tirohanga atu; ko tōna hiako, me ōna kiko, me ōna toto, me tahu tahi me tōna paru. 6 Nā, ka mau te tohunga ki te rākau hīta, ki te hihopa, ki te mea ngangana, ā, ka makā e ia ki waenganui o te tahunga o te kau. 7 Kātahi ka horoi te tohunga i ōna kākahu, ka horoi anō hoki i tōna kiri ki te wai, ā muri iho ka haere ki te puni, ka poke hoki te tohunga ā ahiahi noa. 8 Me te kaitahu anō, me horoi ōna kākahu ki te wai, me horoi anō tōna kiri ki te wai, ka poke hoki ia ā ahiahi noa.

9 "Ā, me āmene ngā pungarehu o te kau e tētahi tangata pokekore, ā, ka waiho i waho o te puni, i te wāhi pokekore, ka tiaki ai mō te whakaminenga o ngā tama a Īharaira hei wai wehenga; hei horohoro tēnā mō te hara. 10 Me horoi anō hoki ōna kākahu e te kaiāmene i ngā pungarehu o te kau, ka poke hoki ia ā ahiahi noa. Me waiho anō tēnā hei tikanga tūturu mā ngā tama a Īharaira, mā te manene hoki e noho manene ana i roto i a rātou."

Hei Pure i te Poke

11 "Ki te pā tētahi ki te tinana mate o tētahi tangata, ka poke ia, e whitu ngā rā. 12 Me pure ia e ia ki taua wai i te toru o ngā rā, ā, i te whitu o ngā rā ka kore ōna poke. Otiia ki te kore ia e pure i a ia i te toru o ngā rā, e kore ia e pokekore i te whitu o ngā rā. 13 Ki te pā tētahi ki te tinana mate o tētahi tangata kua mate, ā, kāhore e pure i a ia, e whakapokea ana e ia te tapenākara o Ihowā. Ka hātepea taua wairua i roto i a Īharaira; nō te mea kīhai i tāuhiuhia ki a ia te wai wehenga, ka poke anō ia; e mau ana anō ki a ia tōna poke.

14 "Ko te ture tēnei ina mate te tangata i roto i te tēneti. Ko ngā tāngata katoa e tomo ana ki te tēneti, me ngā tāngata katoa i roto i te tēneti, ka poke kia whitu ngā rā. 15 Ko ngā oko katoa anō e puare kau ana, kāhore nei i herea te taupoki, ka poke.

16 "Ki te pā hoki tētahi ki te tangata i patua ki te hoari ki waenga pārae, ki te tūpāpaku rānei, ki te wheua tangata rānei, ki te urupā rānei, ka poke ia kia whitu ngā rā.

17 "Nā, mō te tangata poke, me tiki e rātou ētahi o ngā pungarehu o te kau i tahuna hei horohoronga mō ngā hara, ka riringi ai ki te wai ora, ki roto anō ki te oko. 18 Nā, ka mau tētahi tangata pokekore ki te hihopa, ka tuku ki te wai, nā, ka tāuhiuhi i te tēneti me ngā oko katoa, i ngā tāngata anō hoki o reira, me te tangata i pā atu nei ki te wheua ki te tangata rānei i patua, ki te tūpāpaku rānei, ki te urupā rānei. 19 Me tāuhiuhi anō hoki e te tangata pokekore te tangata poke i te toru o ngā rā, i te whitu hoki o ngā rā; ā, me pure ia e ia anō i te whitu o ngā rā ka horoi ai i ōna kākahu, ka horoi anō hoki i a ia ki te wai, ā, i te ahiahi ka kore te poke.

20 "Ā, ki te poke tētahi tangata, ā, kāhore e pure i a ia, ka hātepea atu taua wairua i roto i te huihui, mōna i whakapoke i te wāhi tapu o Ihowā. Kīhai te wai o te wehenga i tāuhiuhia ki a ia; he poke. 21 Ā, hei tikanga tūturu tēnei mā rātou.

"Me horoi ōna kākahu e te kaitāuhiuhi o te wai wehenga; ka poke anō ā ahiahi noa te tangata e pā ana ki te wai wehenga. 22 Ka poke anō ngā mea katoa e pā ai te tangata poke; ka poke anō ā ahiahi noa te wairua e pā ana."