Bible Verses

Laws of Ritual Purity Anyone who touches the corpse of any person whatsoever will be unclean for seven days.

The man who has gathered the cow’s ashes shall wash his clothing and remain unclean until evening. This will be a law forever for the people of Israel and the strangers living among them.

A clean man shall gather the cow’s ashes and put them in a clean place outside the camp. They must be kept for the community of Israel to prepare the water for purification.

The man who has burned the cow shall wash his clothing, bathe his body in water, and remain unclean until evening.

 Finally, he shall wash his clothing and bathe his body in water, after which he may return to the camp, but he will remain unclean until evening.

Then the priest is to take cedar wood, a twig of hyssop leaves, and a red cord, and throw them on the fire where the cow is burning.

The cow shall then be burned in his presence, including hide, flesh, blood, and the intestines too.

Then Eleazar the priest is to take some of the cow’s blood on his finger and sprinkle this blood seven times toward the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.

You will give it to Eleazar, the priest, so that it may be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

 “This is a regulation and a law that the Lord gives you. Say to the people of Israel that they are to bring you a red cow, which has no defects and has never been made to work.