12. He will make himself clean on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be clean. But if he does not make himself clean on the third day, then the seventh day he will not be clean.
13. Whoever touches the body of any man that is dead and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, and that person will be cut off from Israel. Because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, he will be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.
14. This is the law, when a man dies in a tent. Each person who comes into the tent and all that is in the tent will be unclean seven days.
15. Every open vessel which has no covering fastened on it is unclean.
16. Whoever in the field touches one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave will be unclean seven days.
17. For an unclean person they will take from the ashes of the burnt sin offering, and running water will be on it in a vessel.
18. A clean person will take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and splash it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the people who were there, and on him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave.
19. The clean person will splash on the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. And on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; and he will be clean at evening.
20. But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from among the assembly because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.
21. It will be an eternal statute to them.He that sprinkles the water of purification will wash his clothes, and he that touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.
22. Whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person that touches it will be unclean until evening.