Catholic Public Domain Version

Numbers 19:5-12 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

5. And he shall burn it, while all are watching, delivering into the flame, not only its skin and flesh, but also the blood and dung.

6. Likewise, cedar wood, and hyssop, and twice-dyed scarlet he shall cast into the flame, by which the cow is consumed.

7. And then finally, having washed his garments and his body, he shall enter into the camp, and he shall be deeply stained until evening.

8. Then he also who had burned it shall wash his garments and his body, and he shall be unclean until evening.

9. Then a clean man shall gather the ashes of the cow, and he shall pour them out beyond the camp, in a very pure place, so that they may be preserved for the multitude of the sons of Israel, and for the water of aspersion, because the cow was burned for sin.

10. And when he who had carried the ashes of the cow will have washed his garments, he shall be unclean until evening. The sons of Israel, and the newcomers who live among them, shall have this as a holy and perpetual right.

11. Whoever touches the corpse of a man, and is, because of this, unclean for seven days,

12. shall be sprinkled from this water on the third and seventh days, and so shall he be cleansed. But if he was not sprinkled on the third day, he is not able to be cleansed on the seventh.