1. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:
2. This is the statute for the ritual which the Lord has commanded. Tell the Israelites to procure for you a red heifer without defect and free from every blemish and on which no yoke has ever been laid.
3. You will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be led outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
4. Eleazar the priest will take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting.
5. Then the heifer will be burned in his sight; it will be burned with its hide and flesh, its blood and dung;
6. and the priest will take cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire in which the heifer is being burned.