Numbers 19

vayedabber Adonai el-mosheh ve'el-aharon lemor

GOD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

zot khuqqat hattorah asher-tsivvah Adonai lemor dabber el-bene yisra'el veyiqkhu elekha farah adummah temimah asher en-bah mum asher lo-alah aleha ol

This is the ritual law that GOD has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid.

unetattem otah el-elazar hakkohen vehotsi otah el-mikhuts lammakhaneh veshakhat otah lefanayw

You shall give it to Eleazar the priest. It shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

velaqakh elazar hakkohen middamah be'etsba'o vehizzah el-nokhakh pene ohel-mo'ed middamah sheva pe'amim

Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.

vesaraf et-happarah le'enayw et-orah ve'et-besarah ve'et-damah al-pirshah yisrof

The cow shall be burned in his sight—its hide, flesh, and blood shall be burned, its dung included—

velaqakh hakkohen ets erez ve'ezov usheni tola'at vehishlikh el-tokh serefat happarah

and the priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson stuff, and throw them into the fire consuming the cow.

vekhibbes begadayw hakkohen verakhats besaro bammayim ve'akhar yavo el-hammakhaneh vetame hakkohen ad-ha'arev

The priest shall wash his garments and bathe in water; after that the priest may reenter the camp, but he shall be impure until evening.

vehassoref otah yekhabbes begadayw bammayim verakhats besaro bammayim vetame ad-ha'arev

The one who performed the burning shall also wash their garments in water, bathe, and be impure until evening.

ve'asaf ish tahor et efer happarah vehinniakh mikhuts lammakhaneh bemaqom tahor vehayetah la'adat bene-yisra'el lemishmeret leme niddah khattat hiv

Someone else who is pure shall gather up the ashes of the cow and deposit them outside the camp in a pure place, to be kept for water of lustration for the Israelite community. It is for purgation.

vekhibbes ha'osef et-efer happarah et-begadayw vetame ad-ha'arev vehayetah livne yisra'el velagger haggar betokham lekhuqqat olam

The one who gathers up the ashes of the cow shall also wash their clothes and be impure until evening. This shall be a permanent law for the Israelites and for the strangers who reside among them.

hannogea bemet lekhol-nefesh adam vetame shivat yamim

Anyone who touches the corpse of any human being shall be impure for seven days.

hu yitkhatta-vo bayyom hashelishi uvayyom hashevi'i yithar ve'im-lo yitkhatta bayyom hashelishi uvayyom hashevi'i lo yithar

They shall undergo cleansing with [the ashes] on the third day and on the seventh day, and then be pure; if they fail to undergo cleansing on the third and seventh days, they shall not be pure.

kol-hannogea bemet benefesh ha'adam asher-yamut velo yitkhatta et-mishkan Adonai timme venikhretah hannefesh hahiv miyyisra'el ki me niddah lo-zoraq alayw tame yihyeh od tumato vo

Whoever touches a corpse—the body of a person who has died—and does not undergo cleansing, defiles GOD’s Tabernacle; that person shall be cut off from Israel. Since the water of lustration was not dashed on them, they remain impure; their impurity is still upon them.

zot hattorah adam ki-yamut be'ohel kol-habba el-ha'ohel vekhol-asher ba'ohel yitma shivat yamim

This is the ritual: When a person dies in a tent, whoever enters the tent and whoever is in the tent shall be impure seven days;

vekhol keli fatuakh asher en-tsamid patil alayw tame hu

and every open vessel, with no lid fastened down, shall be impure.

vekhol asher-yigga al-pene hassadeh bakhalal-kherev o vemet o-ve'etsem adam o veqaver yitma shivat yamim

And in the open, anyone who touches a person who was killed or who died naturally, or human bone, or a grave, shall be impure seven days.

velaqekhu lattame me'afar serefat hakhattat venatan alayw mayim khayyim el-keli

Some of the ashes from the fire of purgation shall be taken for the impure person, and fresh water shall be added to them in a vessel.

velaqakh ezov vetaval bammayim ish tahor vehizzah al-ha'ohel ve'al-kol-hakkelim ve'al-hannefashot asher hayu-sham ve'al-hannogea ba'etsem o vekhalal o vammet o vaqqaver

Then someone who is pure shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle on the tent and on all the vessels and people who were there, or on the one who touched the bones or the person who was killed or died naturally or the grave.

vehizzah hattahor al-hattame bayyom hashelishi uvayyom hashevi'i vekhitte'o bayyom hashevi'i vekhibbes begadayw verakhats bammayim vetaher ba'arev

The pure person shall sprinkle it upon the impure person on the third day and on the seventh day, thus cleansing that person by the seventh day. [The latter] shall then wash their clothes and bathe in water—and at nightfall shall be pure.

ve'ish asher-yitma velo yitkhatta venikhretah hannefesh hahiv mittokh haqqahal ki et-miqdash Adonai timme me niddah lo-zoraq alayw tame hu

If anyone who has become impure fails to undergo cleansing, that person shall be cut off from the congregation for having defiled GOD’s sanctuary. The water of lustration was not dashed on them—they are impure.

vehayetah lahem lekhuqqat olam umazzeh me-hanniddah yekhabbes begadayw vehannogea beme hanniddah yitma ad-ha'arev

That shall be for them a law for all time. Further, whoever sprinkled the water of lustration shall wash their clothes; and whoever touches the water of lustration shall be impure until evening.

vekhol asher-yigga-bo hattame yitma vehannefesh hannoga'at titma ad-ha'arev

Whatever that impure person touches shall be impure; and the person who touches [that impure one] shall be impure until evening.