2This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke.
3You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face:
4and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
5One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
6and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
7Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
8He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
