Numbers 19:9-18

9Now a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and 1the congregation of the sons of Israel shall keep it as 2water to remove impurity; it is 3purification from sin. 10The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer 4shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute to the sons of Israel and to the alien who sojourns among them.

11‘5The one who touches the corpse of any 6person shall be unclean for seven days. 12That one shall 7purify himself from uncleanness with 8the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and then he will be clean; but if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean. 139Anyone who touches a corpse, the 10body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself, 11defiles the 12tabernacle of the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not 1314sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still 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 for seven days. 15Every open vessel, which has no covering 15tied down on it, shall be unclean. 1616Also, anyone who in the open field touches one who has been slain with a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days. 17Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the 17ashes of the 18burnt 1920purification from sin and 21flowing water shall be 22added to them in a vessel. 18A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there, and on the one who touched the bone or the one slain or the one dying naturally or the grave.