1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:
2 “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded: ‘Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without blemish, which has no defect and has never carried a yoke.
3 You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp, and it must be slaughtered before him.
4 Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times directly in front of the tent of meeting.
5 Then the heifer must be burned in his sight – its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.