⁹ Now a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and put them outside the camp in a clean place, and ^[a]the congregation of the sons of Israel shall keep them for ^(A)water to remove impurity; it is ^[b]purification from sin.

^13 (A)Anyone who touches a dead body, the ^[a]body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, ^(B)defiles the ^[b]tabernacle of the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Since the water for impurity was not ^(C)sprinkled on him, he will be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.

²⁰ ‘But the person who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has ^(A)defiled the sanctuary of the Lord; the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.