Whoever touches a corpse, the body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh, and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he remains unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
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11Whoever touches a human corpse shall be unclean seven days. 12He shall purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and he will be clean; but if he does not purify himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he will not be clean. 13Whoever touches a corpse, the body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh, and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he remains unclean; his uncleanness is still on him. 14This is the law: when a person dies in a tent, everyone who enters the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 15Every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.
