Numbers 19:1-10

¹The Lord told Moses and Aaron,

²“This is a legal regulation the Lord has ordered, saying, ‘Tell the Israelites to bring you a red cow without defects which has never been yoked.

³Hand it over to Eleazar the priest, and he will take it outside the camp and have it slaughtered before him.

⁴Eleazar the priest will put some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times towards the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.

⁵Then the cow must be burned as he watches All of it is to be burned—its skin, meat, and blood, as well as its excrement.

⁶The priest shall throw cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson thread on the burning cow.

⁷Then the priest shall wash his clothes and his body in water, and after that he may enter the camp, but he will remain unclean until the evening.

⁸The person who burned the cow shall also wash his clothes and his body in water, and he too will remain unclean until the evening.

⁹Then a man who is clean shall collect the ashes of the cow and keep them in a clean place outside the camp. They are to be kept by the Israelites to prepare the water of purification which is for purifying from sin.

¹⁰The man who collected the ashes of the cow shall also wash his clothes, and he will remain unclean until the evening. This is a permanent rule for the Israelites and for the foreigner that lives with them.