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Then the priest is to take some cedar[a] wood, hyssop, and scarlet material and throw it into the middle of the burning heifer. The priest is to wash his clothes and bathe himself[b] with water, after which he may enter the camp, but he is to remain unclean until evening. Whoever takes part in the burning is to wash his clothes and bathe himself[c] in water and is to remain unclean until the evening.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 19:6 I.e. a genus of coniferous evergreen in the family Pinaceae; and so throughout the book
  2. Numbers 19:7 Lit. bathe his flesh
  3. Numbers 19:8 Lit. bathe his flesh