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And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
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This
is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak unto the sons of Israel that they bring thee a red heifer, perfect, in which there
is no blemish,
and upon which there has never been placed a yoke;
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and ye shall give her unto Eleazar, the priest, that he may bring her forth outside the camp, and he shall cause her to be slain in his presence.
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And Eleazar, the priest, shall take of her blood with his finger and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the testimony seven times;
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and he shall cause the heifer to be burnt in his sight; her skin and her flesh and her blood with her dung shall he cause to burn.
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Then the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet and cast
it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
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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.
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Likewise he that burns her shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh in water and shall be unclean until the evening.
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And a man
that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and lay
them up outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel for the water of separation; it is sin.
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And he that gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; and it shall be unto the sons of Israel and unto the stranger that sojourns among them for a perpetual statute.
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He that touches the dead body of any human person shall be unclean seven days.