¹³ This is a serious business, for everyone who comes into contact with a human corpse must purify himself like this. Otherwise, he pollutes My tent and so must be banished from Israel. If he has not been doused with the special cleansing water, his impurity still clings to him. He is impure.

¹⁴ Now if someone dies indoors, then everyone entering or inside the tent will be impure for the full seven days. ¹⁵ Not only that, but any cup, jar, or bowl that is open or didn’t otherwise have a cover attached when that person died will also be impure.