12. That person must be cleansed with water on the third and seventh days to be clean. If he fails to be cleansed with water on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.
13. Anyone who touches the body of a human who has died and doesn’t cleanse himself defiles the Lord’s dwelling. Such persons must be cut off from Israel because the water of purification wasn’t sprinkled on them. They remain unclean.
14. This is the instruction: When anyone dies in a tent, all who go into the tent and all who are in the tent are unclean for seven days.
15. Any open jar without a sealed cover on it is unclean.
16. Anyone in the open field who touches a person slain by the sword, or who died naturally, or a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
17. For the unclean person, they will take some of the ashes of the purification offering and place fresh water with it in a jar.
18. Then a clean person will take hyssop, dip it into the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the jars, on the people who were there, and on anyone who touched bone, the slain, the dead, or the grave.