THE RED HEIFER (NUM.19)
YAHUSHA said to Moses and Aaron, “It’s time I gave you this important legal Instruction: Tell the people of Yisharal to bring you a red heifer(FEMALE COW THAT’S NEVER HAD CALVES) a perfect animal with no defects and has never been yoked to a plow(USED FOR COMMON WORK). Give it to Eleazar the priest, who will take it outside the camp and slaughter it, taking some of its blood on his finger and sprinkling it seven times toward the front of the Tabernacle. Then the heifer must be completely burned, as Eleazar watches (its hide, meat, blood, and dung). He will then take a STICK OF SEDER, a HYSSOP BRANCH, and some SCARLET THREAD and throw them into the fire where the heifer is burning.
Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and afterward he may return to the camp, but he will be unclean until evening. The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he, too, will be unclean until evening. Then someone (who is already clean) will gather up the ashes of the heifer and put them in a clean place outside the camp, kept there for the community of Yisharal to use in the water for the purification ceremonies (performed for the removal of disobedience). The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening too. This is a permanent instruction for the people of Yisharal and any foreigners who live among them.
All those who touch a dead human body will be unclean for seven days and must purify themselves on the third and seventh days with the water of purification, then they will be clean. But if they don’t do this (on the third and seventh days), they’ll continue to be unclean even after the seventh day. All those who touch a dead body and DON’T CLEANSE THEMSELVES PROPERLY will defile My Tabernacle, and they must be cut off from the community of Yisharal. And since the water of purification was not sprinkled on them, they remain unclean.
Here is the Instruction for when someone dies inside a tent: All those who enter that tent and those who were inside when the death occurred will be unclean for seven days and any open container in the tent that wasn’t covered with a lid is also unclean. And if someone in an open field touches the corpse of someone who was killed with a sword or who died a natural death, or if someone touches human bones or a grave, that person will be unclean for seven days too. YAHUSHA HATES DEATH!
So to remove the uncleanliness, put some of the ashes from the burnt heifer offering in a jar, and pour some (living) water over them. Then someone (who is already clean) must take a hyssop branch and dip it into the water and sprinkle it in the tent, on all the furnishings in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent, also on the person who touched human bones, or touched someone who was killed or who died naturally, or touched a grave. And on the third and seventh days the person who is clean must sprinkle the water on those who are unclean. Then on the seventh day the people being cleansed must wash their clothes and bathe themselves, and that evening they will be cleansed of their defilement. But those who become unclean and don’t cleanse themselves will be cut off from the community, for they have POLLUTED MY TABERNACLE and since the water of purification has not been sprinkled on them, they remain unclean. This is a permanent Instruction for the people. Those who sprinkle the water of purification must afterward wash their clothes, and anyone who then touches the water used for purification will remain unclean until evening. Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be unclean until evening.”
