¹⁷ ‘And for an unclean person they shall take some of the ^(A)ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and ^[a]running water shall be put on them in a vessel. ¹⁸ A clean person shall take ^(B)hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave. ¹⁹ The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; ^(C)and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; and at evening he shall be clean.

¹³ For if ^(A)the blood of bulls and goats and ^(B)the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, ^[a]sanctifies for the ^[b]purifying of the flesh,

¹⁹ For when Moses had spoken every ^[a]precept to all the people according to the law, ^(A)he took the blood of calves and goats, ^(B)with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,