CHAP. XIX.
The law of the sacrifice of the
red cow, and the water of
expiation.
1 And the Lord spoke to
Moses and Aaron, saying:
2 This is the observance
of the victim, which the Lord
hath ordained. Command
the children of Israel, that
they bring unto thee note a red
cow of full age, in which
there is no blemish, and which
hath not carried the yoke:
3 And you shall deliver
her to Eleazar the priest, who
shall bring her forth without
the camp, and shall immolate
her in the sight of all:
4 And dipping his finger
in her blood, shall sprinkle it
over-against the door of the
tabernacle seven times,
5 And shall burn her in
the sight of all, delivering up
to the fire her skin, and her
flesh, and her blood, and her
dung.
6 The priest shall also take
cedar-wood, and hyssop, and
scarlet twice dyed, and cast it
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into the flame, with which
the cow is consumed.
7 And then after washing
his garments, and body, he
shall enter into the camp, and
shall be unclean until the evening.
8 He also that hath burned
her, shall wash his garments
and his body, and shall be unclean
until the evening.
9 And a man that is clean
shall gather up the ashes of
the cow, and shall pour them
forth without the camp in a
most clean place, that they
may be reserved for the multitude
of the children of Israel,
and for a water of aspersion:
because the cow was burnt for
sin.
10 And when he that carried
the ashes of the cow, hath
washed his garments, he shall
be unclean until the evening.
The children of Israel, and
the strangers that dwell among
them, shall observe this for a
holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.
11 He that toucheth the
corps of a man, and is there
fore unclean seven days:
12 Shall be sprinkled with
this water on the third day,
and on the seventh, and so
shall be cleansed. If he were
not sprinkled on the third day,
he cannot be cleansed on the
seventh.
13 Every one that toucheth
the corps of a man,
and is not sprinkled with this
mixture, shall profane the tabernacle
of the Lord, and shall
perish out of Israel: because
he was not sprinkled with the
water of expiation, he shall
be unclean, and his uncleanness
shall remain upon him.
14 This is the law of a
man that dieth in a tent: All
that go in to his tent, and all
the vessels that are there, shall
be unclean seven days.
15 The vessel that hath
no cover, nor binding over it,
shall be unclean.
16 If any man in the field
touch the corps of a man that
was slain, or that died of himself,
or his bone, or his grave,
he shall be unclean seven days.
17 And they shall take of
the ashes of the burning and
of the sin-offering, and shall
pour living waters upon them
into a vessel.
18 And a man that is clean
shall dip hyssop in them, and
shall sprinkle therewith all the
tent, and all the furniture,
and the men that are defiled
with touching any such thing:
19 And in this manner he
that is clean shall purify the
unclean on the third and on
the seventh day. And being
expiated the seventh day, he
shall wash both himself and
his garments, and be unclean
until the evening.
20 If any man be not expiated
after this rite, his soul
shall perish out of the midst
of the church: because he
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hath profaned the sanctuary of
the Lord, and was not sprinkled
with the water of purification.
21 This precept shall be an
ordinance for ever. He also
that sprinkled the water, shall
wash his garments: Every one
that shall touch the waters of
expiation, shall be unclean until
the evening.
22 Whatsoever a person
toucheth who is unclean, he
shall make it unclean: and
the person that toucheth any
of these things, shall be unclean
until the evening.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
