¹紅母牛的灰耶和華對摩西和亞倫說：

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

²“耶和華所定的律法是這樣說：你要吩咐以色列人，把一頭完全、沒有殘疾、未曾負過軛的紅母牛，牽到你這裡來。

²“This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded: Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and which was never yoked.

³你們要把牛交給以利亞撒祭司，他就要把牛牽到營外，在他面前把牛宰了。

³You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face:

⁴以利亞撒祭司要用指頭蘸牛血，向會幕前面灑七次。

⁴and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.

⁵然後，在他面前把牛焚燒，牛的皮、肉、血和糞，都要焚燒。

⁵One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

⁶祭司要把香柏木、牛膝草、朱紅色線，都丟在燒牛的火中。

⁶and the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

⁷祭司要洗自己的衣服，並用水洗身，然後才可以進營；但祭司必不潔淨到晚上。

⁷Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.

⁸那燒牛的人也要用水洗自己的衣服，並用水洗身，也必不潔淨到晚上。

⁸He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

⁹要由一個潔淨的人收起母牛的灰，安放在營外潔淨的地方，為以色列會眾留作除污穢的水，這是除罪的。

⁹“A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering.

¹⁰那收起牛灰的人，要洗自己的衣服，必不潔淨到晚上。這要給以色列人和寄居在他們中間的外人，作永遠的定例。

¹⁰He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.

¹¹潔淨不潔之民的條例“摸了任何死屍的，必不潔淨七天。

¹¹“He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

¹²那人在第三天要用這樣除污穢的水潔淨自己，到第七天他就潔淨了；如果他在第三天不潔淨自己，到第七天他就不潔淨了。

¹²the same shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

¹³任何人摸了死屍，而不潔淨自己的，就玷污了耶和華的帳幕，這人必要從以色列中剪除，因為這除污穢的水沒有灑在他身上，所以他必不潔淨；他的不潔還留在他身上。

¹³Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

¹⁴“如果人在會幕裡死了，條例是這樣的：進這會幕的和一切在會幕裡的，都必不潔淨七天。

¹⁴“This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

¹⁵一切敞口的器皿，就是沒有蓋上蓋的，都是不潔淨的。

¹⁵Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

¹⁶在田間摸了被刀殺死的，或是自己死的屍體，或是人的骨頭，或是墳墓，就必不潔淨七天。

¹⁶“Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

¹⁷人要為這不潔淨的人，拿些燒成的除罪灰，放在器皿裡，倒上活水。

¹⁷“For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

¹⁸要由一個潔淨的人，拿牛膝草蘸在這水裡，把水灑在會幕上和一切器皿，以及在那裡的眾人身上，又灑在摸了骨頭，或是摸了被殺死的，或是摸了墳墓的人身上。

¹⁸and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:

¹⁹第三天和第七天，那潔淨的人要灑水在不潔淨的人身上，這樣到第七天就使他潔淨；他要洗自己的衣服，用水洗身，到晚上就潔淨了。

¹⁹and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

²⁰“但那污穢而不潔淨自己的，那人必從會眾中被剪除，因為他玷污了耶和華的聖所；除污穢的水沒有灑在他身上，他是不潔淨的。

²⁰But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

²¹這要給你們作永遠的定例。那灑了除污穢水的人，要洗自己的衣服；那摸了除污穢水的，必不潔淨到晚上。

²¹It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

²²不潔淨的人摸過的一切，必不潔淨；摸了這物的人，也必不潔淨到晚上。”

²²“Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”