1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
2 “These are the teachings that the Lord commanded. Tell the Israelites to get a young red cow. It must not have anything wrong with it. It must not have been worked.
3 Give the cow to Eleazar the priest. He will take it outside the camp and kill it.
4 Then Eleazar the priest must put some of the blood on his finger. He must sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Meeting Tent.
5 Then the whole cow must be burned while he watches. The skin, the meat, the blood and the intestines must all be burned.
6 Then the priest must take a cedar stick, a hyssop branch and a red string. He must throw them onto the burning cow.