1 O Senhor disse a Moisés e a Aarão:

2 "Eis a prescrição legal que o Senhor vos dá: dize aos israelitas que te tragam uma vaca vermelha sem defeito, sem mancha e que não tenha ainda levado o jugo.

3 Entregá-la-eis ao sacerdote Eleazar, o qual, levando-a para fora do acampamento, imolá-la-á à vista de todos.

4 O sacerdote Eleazar tomará o sangue do animal com o dedo e fará com ele sete aspersões para o lado da entrada da tenda de reunião.

5 A vaca será em seguida queimada à vista de todos: queimar-se-á o couro, a carne, o sangue e os excrementos.

6 O sacerdote tomará pau de cedro, hissopo e carmesim, e os jogará nas chamas que queimam a vaca.

7 O sacerdote lavará suas vestes e banhar-se-á em água. Depois disso voltará ao acampamento, e será impuro até a tarde.

8 Aquele que tiver queimado a vaca lavará suas vestes e banhar-se-á em água, e será impuro até a tarde.

9 Um homem puro recolherá a cinza da vaca e a deporá em um lugar puro fora do acampamento, onde será guardada pela assembléia dos israelitas para a água lustral. Este é um sacrifício pelo pecado.

10 Aquele que tiver recolhido a cinza da vaca lavará suas vestes e será impuro até a tarde. Esta será uma lei perpétua para os israelitas e para o estrangeiro que habita no meio deles.

11 Quem tocar o cadáver de um homem qualquer será impuro sete dias;

12 purificar-se-á com esta água ao terceiro e ao sétimo dia, e será puro; mas se ele não se purificar ao terceiro e ao sétimo dia, não será puro.

13 Todo que tiver tocado o cadáver de um homem qualquer, e não se purificar, manchará a casa do Senhor; será cortado de Israel. Não tendo corrido sobre ele a água lustral, ficará impuro, e sua impureza permanecerá sobre ele.

14 Esta é a lei: tudo o que penetrar na tenda em que morrer um homem será impuro durante sete dias, e igualmente tudo o que ali se encontrar.

15 O vaso aberto, sem tampa, será também impuro.

16 Se alguém, em pleno campo, tocar em um homem morto pela espada, em um cadáver, em ossos humanos, ou em um sepulcro, será impuro durante sete dias.

17 Para quem se tiver assim manchado, tomar-se-á da cinza da vítima queimada pelo pecado, e se deitará por cima dela, dentro de um vaso, água viva.

18 Em seguida, um homem puro, depois de ter molhado nela um hissopo, aspergirá com ele a tenda, todo o seu mobiliário, todas as pessoas que aí se encontram, bem como a pessoa que tocou nos ossos, ou no homem assassinado, ou no cadáver, ou no sepulcro.

19 O homem puro aspergirá o impuro ao terceiro e ao sétimo dia e o purificará no sétimo dia. Lavará as suas vestes e a si mesmo, e à tarde será puro.

20 O homem impuro que não se purificar será cortado da assembléia, porque ele mancha o santuário do Senhor. Não tendo corrido sobre ele a água lustral, ele permanece impuro.

21 Esta será para eles uma lei perpétua. Aquele que tiver feito a aspersão com a água lustral deverá lavar suas vestes. Todo que tocar a água lustral será impuro até a tarde.

22 Tudo o que tocar o impuro será manchado, e a pessoa que o tocar será impura até a tarde."

1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

2 This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put:

3 Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him.

4 Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the front of the Tent of meeting:

5 And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned:

6 Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.

7 And the priest, after washing his clothing and bathing his body in water, may come back to the tent-circle, and will be unclean till evening.

8 And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

9 Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering.

10 And he who takes up the dust of the burned cow is to have his clothing washed with water and be unclean till evening: this is to be a law for ever, for the children of Israel as well as for the man from another country who is living among them.

11 Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:

12 On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make himself clean with the water, and so he will be clean: but if he does not do this on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.

13 Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged.

14 This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days.

15 And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.

16 And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.

17 And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel:

18 And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched.

19 Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening.

20 But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.

21 This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.

22 Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.