2 “Here is another legal requirement commanded by the lord: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer, a perfect animal that has no defects and has never been yoked to a plow.
3 Give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
4 Eleazar will take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tabernacle.
5 As Eleazar watches, the heifer must be burned—its hide, meat, blood, and dung.
6 Eleazar the priest must then take a stick of cedar, a hyssop branch, and some scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire where the heifer is burning.
7 “Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water. Afterward he may return to the camp, though he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening.
8 The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he, too, will remain unclean until evening.