⁶ The one who touches any such thing will be unclean^(A) till evening.^(B) He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.^(C)

²² let us draw near to God^(A) with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings,^(B) having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience^(C) and having our bodies washed with pure water.^(D)

⁵ Anyone who touches his bed must wash their clothes^(A) and bathe with water,^(B) and they will be unclean till evening.^(C)

¹¹ And that is what some of you were.^(A) But you were washed,^(B) you were sanctified,^(C) you were justified^(D) in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

¹³ Then Haggai said, “If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?”

“Yes,” the priests replied, “it becomes defiled.^(A)”

⁷ After that, the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water.^(A) He may then come into the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean till evening. ⁸ The man who burns it must also wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he too will be unclean till evening.

⁹ “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer^(B) and put them in a ceremonially clean place^(C) outside the camp. They are to be kept by the Israelite community for use in the water of cleansing;^(D) it is for purification from sin.^{(E) 10} The man who gathers up^(F) the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he too will be unclean till evening.^(G) This will be a lasting ordinance^(H) both for the Israelites and for the foreigners residing among them.^(I)

²⁴ He shall bathe himself with water in the sanctuary area^(A) and put on his regular garments.^(B) Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people,^(C) to make atonement for himself and for the people.^{(D) 25} He shall also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

²⁶ “The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat^(E) must wash his clothes^(F) and bathe himself with water;^(G) afterward he may come into the camp. ²⁷ The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp;^(H) their hides, flesh and intestines are to be burned up. ²⁸ The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.^(I)

²⁴ “‘You will make yourselves unclean by these;^(A) whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening.^{(B) 25} Whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash their clothes,^(C) and they will be unclean till evening.^(D)