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"This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an ^(a)unblemished red heifer in which is no defect and ^(b)on which a yoke has never ^[a]been placed.

Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; ^(f)its hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned.

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 ^[e]the congregation of the sons of Israel shall keep it as ⁽ⁱ⁾water to remove impurity; it is ^[f]purification from sin.

The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer ^(j)shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute to the sons of Israel and to the alien who sojourns among them.

Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the ^[m]ashes of the ^[n]burnt ^[o](q)purification from sin and ^[p]flowing water shall be ^[q]added to them in a vessel.