This is what is to be done ¹  for each ox, or each ram, or each of the male lambs or the goats.

“Any vow or sworn obligation that would bring affliction to her, ¹  her husband can confirm or nullify. ² 

and see ¹  what the land is like, ²  and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,

And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, ¹  or the body of someone who died of natural causes, ²  or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days. ³ 

He must not defile himself even ¹  for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, ²  because the separation ³  for ⁴  his God is on his head.

Why ¹  have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to ²  this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”

And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a peace offering to the Lord,

and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities,

and you make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock (whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the Lord,

Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.

“But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,

“Tell the Israelites, ‘If any ¹  of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may ²  observe the Passover to the Lord.

Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, ¹  that the cloud prolonged its stay ²  over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; ³  but when it was taken up, they traveled on.

“But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally ¹  so that he dies,

“But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman which she has pledged for herself will remain intact. ¹ 

If she made the vow in her husband’s house or put herself under obligation with an oath,

“Only the tribe of Levi ¹  you must not number ²  or count ³  with ⁴  the other Israelites.

No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin ¹  and die.

“And if she marries a husband while under a vow, ¹  or she uttered ²  anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,

and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave, ¹  and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” Now it was the time of year ²  for the first ripe grapes. ³