²¹ This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.

²⁵ Whoever takes away the dead body of one of them is to have his clothing washed, and will be unclean till evening.

⁴⁰ And he who makes use of any part of its body for food is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening; and anyone taking away its body is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.

²⁶ And the man who takes away the goat for Azazel is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and then he may come back to the tent-circle.

²⁷ And the ox of the sin-offering and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was taken in to make the holy place free from sin, are to be taken away outside the tent-circle and their skins and their flesh and their waste are to be burned with fire.

²⁸ And the man by whom they are burned is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water, and then he may come back to the tent-circle.

¹⁹ (Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

¹⁰ Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

¹³ For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean:

¹⁴ How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

⁴ Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.