Numbers 19:14-22

14 And this the law; if a man die in a house, every one that goes into the house, and all things in the house, shall be unclean seven days.
15 And every open vessel which has not a covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.
16 And every one who shall touch a man slain by violence, or a corpse, or human bone, or sepulchre, shall be unclean seven days.
17 And they shall take for the unclean of the burnt ashes of purification, and they shall pour upon them running water into a vessel.
18 And a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it into the water, and sprinkle it upon the house, and the furniture, and all the souls that are therein, and upon him that touched the human bone, or the slain man, or the corpse, or the tomb.
19 And the clean man shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day he shall purify himself; and shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
20 And whatever man shall be defiled and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because he has defiled the holy things of the Lord, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
21 And it shall be to you a perpetual statute; and he that sprinkles the water of sprinkling shall wash his garments; and he that touches the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening.
22 And whatsoever the unclean man shall touch shall be unclean, and the soul that touches it shall be unclean till evening.

Numbers 19:14-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 19

This chapter contains a law for making a water for purification for sin, the ingredients of which are the ashes of a red heifer burnt, about which many things are observed, Nu 19:1-10; the use of the water made of them, to purify such as were unclean by the touch of a dead body, Nu 19:11-13; some rules are given, by which it might be known who were unclean on account of a dead body, Nu 19:14-16; the manner of purifying such persons, Nu 19:17-19; and the punishment of those that should neglect purification, Nu 19:20-22.

The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.