Numbers 19:11-13

New Catholic Bible

¹¹ Water of Purification.“ ‘Whoever touches a person’s dead body will be unclean for seven days. ¹² He will purify himself with the water on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be clean; but if he does not cleanse himself on the third day, then he will not be clean on the seventh day. ¹³ Whoever touches a dead body, the body of someone who died and then does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He will be unclean because the water of purification was not sprinkled upon him; he will be unclean.