Numbers 19:16-18

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¹⁶ Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword or who has died naturally,^[a] or a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean seven days.^{(A) 17} For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt purification offering, and running water shall be added in a vessel;^{(B) 18} then a clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the furnishings, on the persons who were there, and on whoever touched the bone, the slain, the corpse, or the grave.