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The red heifer and the water for impurity

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Numbers 19:1–22: a statute the LORD gives Moses and Aaron. A red heifer without spot or defect, on which a yoke has never come, is given to Eleazar the priest; he has her brought outside the camp and killed before him and sprinkles her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times, and she is burned in his sight, skin, meat, blood and dung, while the priest casts cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet into the fire. A clean man gathers the ashes and lays them up outside the camp in a clean place, kept for the water for cleansing impurity; it is a sin offering. Whoever touches a dead body, whoever comes into or is in a tent where a man dies, and whoever in the open field touches one slain with a sword, a dead body, a bone of a man or a grave, is unclean seven days; the ashes are put with running water in a vessel, a clean person sprinkles the unclean with hyssop on the third and seventh days, and he washes his clothes, bathes, and is clean at evening. Whoever does not purify himself defiles the LORD’s tabernacle and is cut off from Israel.

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NUM 19:1–22, engwebp
¹The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
²“This is the statute of the law which the LORD 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.
³You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.
⁴Eleazar 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.
⁵One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.
⁶The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.
⁷Then 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.
⁸He 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.
¹⁰He 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.
¹²He 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.
¹³Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles the LORD’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.
¹⁵Every 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.
¹⁸A 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.
¹⁹The 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.
²⁰But 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 the LORD. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.
²¹It 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.”
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Moses — Took part in — The red heifer and the water for impurity

Evidence: Numbers 19:1–22
Aaron — Took part in — The red heifer and the water for impurity

Evidence: Numbers 19:1–22
Eleazar (son of Aaron) — Took part in — The red heifer and the water for impurity

Evidence: Numbers 19:1–22

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Entry: The red heifer and the water for impurity (event-num-19-red-heifer)
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Current wording: Numbers 19:1–22: a statute the LORD gives Moses and Aaron. A red heifer without spot or defect, on which a yoke has never come, is given to Eleazar the priest; he has her brought outside the camp and killed before him and sprinkles her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times, and she is burned in his sight, skin, meat, blood and dung, while the priest casts cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet into the fire. A clean man gathers the ashes and lays them up outside the camp in a clean place, kept for the water for cleansing impurity; it is a sin offering. Whoever touches a dead body, whoever comes into or is in a tent where a man dies, and whoever in the open field touches one slain with a sword, a dead body, a bone of a man or a grave, is unclean seven days; the ashes are put with running water in a vessel, a clean person sprinkles the unclean with hyssop on the third and seventh days, and he washes his clothes, bathes, and is clean at evening. Whoever does not purify himself defiles the LORD’s tabernacle and is cut off from Israel.
Cited evidence: NUM 19:1–22, engwebp
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