² “Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease,^(A) anyone who has a discharge,^(B) or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.^{(C) 3} Send away both male or female; send them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps where I dwell among them.”

⁶ He must not go near a dead body during the time he consecrates himself to the Lord.^(A)

¹¹ “The person who touches any human corpse will be unclean for seven days. ¹² He is to purify himself with the water^[a] on the third day and the seventh day; then he will be clean.^(A) But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean. ¹³ Anyone who touches a body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person will be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean because the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.

¹⁹ “You are to remain outside the camp for seven days. All of you and your prisoners who have killed a person or touched the dead are to purify yourselves on the third day and the seventh day.^(A)

²⁵ A priest may not come near a dead person so that he becomes defiled.^(A) However, he may defile himself for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister.