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57. The Red Cow - Parah Adumah
One who has become impure through contact with a corpse
is purified by sprinkling him on the third and seventh
days with water in which the ashes of a red cow have been
mixed, as it says "They shall take an unblemished red cow...
and they shall take for the impure person some of [its]
ashes and put on it living water in a vessel; and a pure
man shall take hyssop and dip it in the water... and
sprinkle on the impure person on the third day and on the
seventh day... and he shall wash in water and be clean in
the evening".1 Those who slaughter the cow and prepare
the ashes become impure for a day,2 as do those who burn
the sin-offerings that are not eaten and who take the scapegoat
to the desert.3 One who touches or moves the water
before it has been sprinkled, except to sprinkle it, also
becomes impure for a day, as it says "And one who sprinkles
the water of isolation shall wash his clothes, and one who
touches the water of isolation shall be impure until evening".4,a
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| 1. Num. 19:2-19 |
a. 5:1,4; 11:1; 15:1 |
| 2. Num. 19:7-8,10 |
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| 3. Lev. 16:26,28 |
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| 4. Num. 19:21 |
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