耶和华命定律法中的一条律例乃是这样说，你要吩咐以色列人，把一只没有残疾，未曾负轭，纯红的母牛牵到你这里来，
This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
交给祭司以利亚撒。他必牵到营外，人就把牛宰在他面前。
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
人要在他眼前把这母牛焚烧。牛的皮，肉，血，粪都要焚烧。
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
烧牛的人必不洁净到晚上，也要洗衣服，用水洗身。
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
摸了人死尸的，就必七天不洁净。
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
那人到第三天要用这除污秽的水洁净自己，第七天就洁净了。他若在第三天不洁净自己，第七天就不洁净了。
He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
人死在帐棚里的条例乃是这样，凡进那帐棚的，和一切在帐棚里的，都必七天不洁净。
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
必当有一个洁净的人拿牛膝草蘸在这水中，把水洒在帐棚上，和一切器皿并帐棚内的众人身上，又洒在摸了骨头，或摸了被杀的，或摸了自死的，或摸了坟墓的那人身上。
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
但那污秽而不洁净自己的，要将他从会中剪除，因为他玷污了耶和华的圣所。除污秽的水没有洒在他身上，他是不洁净的。
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
要将耶和华你神使你承受为业的地分为三段。又要预备道路，使误杀人的，都可以逃到那里去。
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.