2“I am now giving to you another regulation. Tell the Israeli people to bring to you one reddish-brown cow that has no defects. It must be an animal that ◄has never been/no one has ever► used for plowing ground.
3Give it to Eleazar, the priest. He must take it outside the camp and slaughter it and drain the blood in a basin.
4He must dip one of his fingers in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times on the ground near the Sacred Tent.
5Then, while Eleazar watches, the cow must be burned completely—its hide, its meat, the rest of its blood, and even its dung.
6Eliezer then must take a stick of cedar wood, a stalk of a plant named hyssop, and some scarlet/red yarn, and throw them into the fire where the cow is burning.