Numbers 19:1-9 ▼

1 Then 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 red heifer without blemish, in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never been placed.

3 And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be 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 sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.

5 Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned.

6 And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet material and cast it into the midst of the burning heifer.

7 The priest shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body 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 body 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 the congregation of the sons of Israel shall keep it as water to remove impurity; it is purification from sin.