¹⁰ The man who collected the ·cow’s [^Theifer’s] ashes must wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. This is a lasting ·rule [statute; ordinance; requirement] ·for the Israelites [^Lin their midst] and for the ·foreigners [resident aliens] among them.

¹¹ “Those who touch a dead person’s body will be unclean [^Cin a ritual sense] for seven days. ¹² They must ·wash themselves with the cleansing [purify themselves with the] water on the third day and on the seventh day; then they will be clean. But if they do not ·wash themselves [purify themselves] on the third day and the seventh day, they cannot be clean.