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.