1. AND THE Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
2. This is the ritual of the law which the Lord has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, upon which a yoke has never come.
3. And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside the camp, and she shall be slaughtered before him.
4. Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger and sprinkle it toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.
5. The heifer shall be burned in his sight, her skin, flesh, blood, and dung.
6. And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet [stuff] and cast them into the midst of the burning heifer.
7. Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; afterward he shall come into the camp, but he shall be unclean until evening.