King James Version, Updated™

(1) The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

(2) "This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never came.

(3) YOU shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring it outside the camp, and someone shall kill it before him.

(4) Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood directly in front of the tabernacle of the congregation seven times.

(5) And someone shall burn the heifer in his sight; its skin, and its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.

(6) And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and throw them into the midst of the burning heifer.

(7) 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.

(8) And he who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

(9) Then a man who 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 children of Israel for a water of separation; it is a purification for sin.

(10) And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening; and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who dwells among them, for a statute forever.

(11) He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

(12) He shall purify himself with the water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

(13) Whoever touches the body of any man that is dead, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from Israel, because the water of separation was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.

(14) This is the law, when a man dies in a tent: all who come into the tent, and all who are in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

(15) Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

(16) Whoever touches one who is slain with a sword in the open field, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

(17) For an unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel.

(18) Then a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.

(19) And the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

(20) But the man who is unclean, and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of separation has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

(21) It shall be a perpetual statute for them; he who sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of separation shall be unclean until evening.

(22) Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person that touches it shall be unclean until evening.' "