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Now a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and [a]the congregation of the sons of Israel shall keep it as (A)water to remove impurity; it is [b]purification from sin. 10 And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer (B)shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute to the sons of Israel and to the sojourner who sojourns among them.

11 (C)The one who touches the corpse of any [c]person shall be unclean for seven days.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 19:9 Lit it shall be to the congregation...Israel, for a guarding as water of impurity
  2. Numbers 19:9 Or a sin offering
  3. Numbers 19:11 Lit soul of man