Numbers 19:1-10
Statute of the Red Heifer
19Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2“This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel that they take to you a ared heifer without blemish, in which is no defect and bon which a yoke has never 1been placed. 3‘And you shall give it to aEleazar the priest, and it shall bbe brought outside the camp and be slaughtered in his presence. 4‘Next Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and asprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. 5‘Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; aits hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned. 6‘And the priest shall take acedar wood and hyssop and scarlet material and cast it into the midst of the 1burning heifer. 7‘The priest ashall then wash his clothes and bathe his 1body in water and afterward come into the camp, but the priest shall be unclean until evening. 8‘The one who burns it shall also wash his clothes in water and bathe his 1body in water and shall be unclean until evening. 9‘Now a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and 1the congregation of the sons of Israel shall keep it as awater to remove impurity; it is 2purification from sin. 10‘And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer ashall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute to the sons of Israel and to the sojourner who sojourns among them.