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18 Then a clean person shall take (A)hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave. 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean (B)on the third day and on the seventh day. (C)Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall (D)wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.

20 “If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, (E)that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.

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18 Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop,(A) dip it in the water and sprinkle(B) the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave(C) or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death. 19 The man who is clean is to sprinkle(D) those who are unclean on the third and seventh days, and on the seventh day he is to purify them.(E) Those who are being cleansed must wash their clothes(F) and bathe with water, and that evening they will be clean. 20 But if those who are unclean do not purify themselves, they must be cut off from the community, because they have defiled(G) the sanctuary of the Lord.(H) The water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, and they are unclean.(I)

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