1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 “This is the decree of the law that Yahweh has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the Israelites and let them take to you a red heifer without a physical defect, on which a yoke has not been placed.
3 And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be brought out to a place outside the camp, and it will be slaughtered in his presence.
4 Then Eleazar the priest will take some of its blood on his finger and spatter it toward the mouth of the tent of assembly seven times.
5 The heifer will be burned in his sight; its skin, its meat, and its blood, in addition to its offal, will burn.
6 The priest will take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson thread, and he will throw them in the midst of the burning heifer.