“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

“‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body.

“‘If any person sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.

“Any vow or sworn obligation that would bring affliction to her, her husband can confirm or nullify.

The people were 16,000, of which the Lord’s tribute was 32 people.

Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way.

and 32,000 young women who had never had sexual intercourse with a man.

you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

“Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses; but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

“Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

“You must exact a tribute for the Lord from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.