Bilingual reading

The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

“This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.

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

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

One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.

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

Then 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.

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

“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 use in water for cleansing impurity. It is a sin offering.

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

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

He 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.

Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles the LORD’s tabernacle; 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.

“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.

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

“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.

“For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel.

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

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

But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.

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

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

وَكَلَّمَ الرَّبُّ مُوسَى وَهَارُونَ قَائِلاً:

«هٰذه فَريضَةٌ مُن فَرَائِضِ الشَّريعةِ الَّتي أَمَرَ الرَّبُّ بِها قائلًا: مُرْ بَني إِسْرائيلَ أَن يأتوكَ بِبَقَرَةٍ صَهْباءَ تامَّةٍ لا عَيبَ فيها ولم يُرفَعْ علَيها نير

فتُسَلِّمونَها إِلى أَلِعازارَ الكاهِن، فيُخرِجُها إِلى خارِجِ المُخَيَّمِ وتُذبَحُ أَمامَه

فيأخُذُ أَلِعازارُ الكاهِنُ مِن دَمِها بإِصبَعِه ويَرُشُّ مِن دَمِها سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ إِلى أَمامِ خَيمةِ المَوعِد

وتُحرَقُ البَقَرَةُ أَمامَ عَينَيه، جِلْدُها ولَحْمُها ودَمُها ورَوثُها

فيأخُذُ الكاهِنُ عُودَ أَرْزٍ وزُوفى وقِرمِزًا ويُلْقي ذٰلك في وَسَطِ النَّارِ حَيثُ تُحرَقُ البَقَرَة

ثُمَّ يَغسِلُ الكاهِنُ ثِيابَه ويَستَحِمُّ في الماء، وبَعدَ ذٰلك يَعودُ إِلى المُخَيَّم، ويَكونُ الكاهِنُ نَجِسًا إِلى المَساء

والَّذي يُحرِقُ البَقَرَةَ يَغسِلُ ثِيابَه بِالماء ويَستَحِمُّ في الماء ويَكونُ نَجِسًا إِلى المَساء

ويَجمَعُ رَجُلٌ طاهِرٌ رَمادَ البَقَرَة ويَضَعُه خارِجَ المُخَيَّم في مَوضِعٍ طاهِر، فيَكونُ مَحْفوظًا لِجَماعَةِ بَني إِسْرائيلَ لأَجْلِ ماءِ الرَّشّ: إِنَّها ذَبيحةُ خَطيئَة

والَّذي يَجمَعُ رَمادَ البَقَرَةِ يَغسِلُ ثِيابَه ويَكونُ نَجِسًا إِلى المَساء. فيَكونُ ذٰلك فَريضَةً أَبَدِيَّةً لِبَني إِسْرائيلَ ولِلنَّزيلِ النَّازِلِ في وَسْطِهم

مَن لَمَسَ مَيتًا ما مِنَ البَشَر يَكونُ نَجِسًا سَبعَةَ أَيَّام

ويَطَّهِرُ بِهٰذا الماءِ في اليَومِ الثَّالِثِ وفي اليَومِ السَّابِع، فيَطهُر. وإِن لم يَطَّهِرْ في اليَومِ الثَّالِثِ وفي اليَومِ السَّابِع، فلا يَطهُر

كُلُّ مَن لَمَسَ مَيتًا، جُثَّةَ إِنْسانٍ مَيْتٍ، ولم يَطَّهِرْ، فقَد نَجَّسَ مَسكِنَ الرَّبّ، فتُفصَلُ تِلكَ النَّفْسُ مِن إِسْرائيل، إِذ لم يُرَشَّ علَيه ماءُ الرَّشّ، فهو نَجِسٌ ونَجاسَتُه باقِيَةٌ فيه

هٰذه هي الشَّريعة: أَيُّ إِنسانٍ ماتَ في خَيمة، فكُلُّ مَن دَخَلَها وكُلُّ ما فيها يَكونُ نَجِسًا سَبعَةَ أَيَّام

وكُلُّ إِناءٍ مَفْتوحٍ لَيسَ عَلَيه غِطاءٌ مَشْدودٌ فهُو نَجِس

وكُلُّ مَن لَمَسَ، على وَجهِ البَرِّيَّة، قَتيلَ سَيفٍ أَو مَيتًا أَو عَظْمَ إِنْسانٍ أَو قَبْرًا يَكونُ نَجِسًا سَبعةَ أَيَّام

فيُؤخَذُ لِلنَّجِسِ مِن رَمادِ نارِ ذَبيحةِ الخَطيئَةِ في إِناءٍ ويُصَبُّ علَيه ماءٌ حَيٌّ

ويأخُذُ رَجُلٌ طاهِرٌ زُوفى ويَغمِسُها في الماء ويَرُشُّ على الخَيمةِ وعلى جَميعِ الأَمتِعةِ والأَشْخاصِ الَّذينَ كانوا فيها وعلى مَن لَمَسَ العَظْمَ أَوِ القَتيلَ أَوِ المَيتَ أَوِ القَبْر

يَرُشُّ الطَّاهِرُ على النَّجِسِ في اليَومِ الثَّالِثِ والسَّابِع، ويُطَهِّرُه في اليَومِ السَّابِع، فيَغسِلُ ثِيابَه ويَستَحِمُّ في الماء، فيَطهُرُ عِندَ المَساء

وأَيُّ رَجُلٍ تَنَجَّسَ ولم يَطَّهِرْ، تُفصَلُ تِلكَ النَّفْسُ مِن بَينِ الجَماعة، لأَنَّه نَجَّسَ مَقدِسَ الرَّبّ، ولم يُرَشَّ علَيه ماءُ الرَّشّ، فهو نَجِس

فتَكونُ لَكم هٰذه فَريضَةً أَبَدِيَّة. والَّذي يَرُشُّ ماءَ الرَّشِّ يَغسِلُ ثِيابَه، ومَن لامَسَ ماءَ الرَّشِّ يَكونُ نَجِسًا إِلى المَساء

وكُلُّ مَن يَلمُسُه النَّجِسُ يَكونُ نَجِسًا، وكُلُّ مَن لامَسَ النَّجِسَ يَكونُ نَجِسًا إِلى المَساء»