¹² They must purify themselves with the water on the third day and on the seventh day;^(A) then they will be clean. But if they do not purify themselves on the third and seventh days, they will not be clean.^(B)

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.