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"This is the statute of the lawwhich the LORD has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemishedredheifer in which is nodefect and on which a yoke has never been placed.
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'Now a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside* the camp in a cleanplace, and the congregation of the sons of Israel shall keep it as water to remove impurity; it is purification from sin.
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'The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be uncleanuntilevening; and it shall be a perpetualstatute to the sons of Israel and to the alien who sojournsamong them.
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'That one shall purify himself from uncleanness with the water on the thirdday and on the seventhday, and then he will be clean; but if he does not purify himself on the thirdday and on the seventhday, he will not be clean.
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'Anyone who touches a corpse, the body of a manwho has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that person shall be cutoff from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
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'Also, anyonewho in the openfieldtouchesonewho has been slain with a swordor who has died naturally, or a humanboneor a grave, shall be unclean for sevendays.
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'Then for the unclean person they shall takesome of the ashes of the burntpurification from sin and flowingwater shall be added to them in a vessel.
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'A cleanperson shall takehyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the personswho were there, and on the one who touched the boneor the oneslainor the one dying naturally or the grave.
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'Then the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the thirdday and on the seventhday; and on the seventhday he shall purify him from uncleanness, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and shall be clean by evening.
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'But the manwho is unclean and does not purify himself from uncleanness, that person shall be cutoff from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean.
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'So it shall be a perpetualstatute for them. And he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be uncleanuntilevening.