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The cohen is to take cedar-wood, hyssop and scarlet yarn and throw them onto the heifer as it is burning up.
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Then the cohen is to wash his clothes and himself in water, after which he may re-enter the camp; but the cohen will remain unclean until evening.
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The person who burned up the heifer is to wash his clothes and himself in water, but he will remain unclean until evening.
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A man who is clean is to collect the ashes of the heifer and store them outside the camp in a clean place. They are to be kept for the community of the people of Isra'el to prepare water for purification from sin.
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The one who collected the ashes of the heifer is to wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. For the people of Isra'el and for the foreigner staying with them this will be a permanent regulation.
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"Anyone who touches a corpse, no matter whose dead body it is, will be unclean for seven days.
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He must purify himself with [these ashes] on the third and seventh days; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.
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Anyone who touches a corpse, no matter whose dead body it is, and does not purify himself has defiled the tabernacle of ADONAI. That person will be cut off from Isra'el, because the water for purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
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"This is the law: when a person dies in a tent, everyone who enters the tent and everything in the tent will be unclean for seven days.
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Every open container without a cover closely attached is unclean.
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Also whoever is in an open field and touches a corpse, whether of someone killed by a weapon or of someone who died naturally, or the bone of a person, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.