1 GLT And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
2 GLT “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying,‘Speak to the sons of Israel and they shall bring to you an unblemished red heifer in which there is no defect, on which a yoke has not gone up. BSB BSB: “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.
3 GLT And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest. And he shall bring it out to the outside of the camp and shall slaughter it before his face. BSB BSB: Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
4 GLT And Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and shall sprinkle some of its blood to opposite the face of the tent of meeting seven times. BSB BSB: Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.
5 GLT And he shall burn the heifer before his eyes. He shall burn its skin and its flesh, and its blood with its dung. BSB BSB: Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.
6 GLT And the priest shall take wood of cedar and hyssop and scarlet material of a worm, and throw into the midst of the burning of the heifer. BSB BSB: The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
7 GLT And the priest shall wash his garments and bathe his flesh in the water, and afterward he shall enter into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening. BSB BSB: Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
8 GLT And the one who burned it shall wash his garments in the water and bathe his flesh in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. BSB BSB: The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
9 GLT And a clean man shall gather the ashes of the heifer and rest them in a clean place outside of the camp, and it shall be for the congregation of the sons of Israel to keep for the water of purification; it is a sin offering. BSB BSB: Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.
10 GLT And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his garments and be unclean until the evening. And it shall be for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourns in their midst for a statute of eternity. BSB BSB: The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.
11 GLT The one who touches a dead body of any human life will be unclean seven days. BSB BSB: Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.
12 GLT He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be clean, and if he does not purify himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he will not be clean. BSB BSB: He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.
13 GLT Every one who touches a dead body, a human person who has died, and does not purify himself, makes the dwelling of Yahweh unclean, and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, he will be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him. BSB BSB: Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.
14 GLT This is the law of a man who dies in a tent: Every one who enters into the tent and everyone who is in the tent will be unclean seven days, BSB BSB: This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,
15 GLT and every opened vessel on which there is no fastened cover, it is unclean. BSB BSB: and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.
16 GLT And all who touch one pierced of the sword or a dead body or a bone of a human or a grave on the face of the field will be unclean seven days. BSB BSB: Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
17 GLT And they shall take for the unclean one some of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering, and he shall put living water with it into a vessel, BSB BSB: For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
18 GLT and a clean man shall take and dip hyssop in the water. And he shall sprinkle on the tent and on all the vessels and on the lives who were there and on the one who touched the bone or the pierced one or the dead body or the grave, BSB BSB: Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.
19 GLT and the clean one shall sprinkle on the unclean one on the third day and on the seventh day, and he shall purify him on the seventh day. And he shall wash his garments and bathe in the water, and he will be unclean until the evening. BSB BSB: The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean.
20 GLT And a man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly because he has made the holy place of Yahweh unclean. He has not thrown on himself the water of purification. He is unclean. BSB BSB: But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
21 GLT And it shall be for them for a statute of eternity, and the one who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his garments, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until the evening, BSB BSB: This is a permanent statute for the people: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.
22 GLT and all who touch him, the unclean one, will be unclean; and the person who touches will be unclean until the evening.” BSB BSB: Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
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