Laws of Purification

19 And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: ² This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying: Tell the children of Israel that they will bring you a healthy red heifer, which has no blemish, and on which a yoke has never gone, ³ and you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will bring it outside the camp, and it will be slaughtered before him. ⁴ And Eleazar the priest will take from its blood with his finger and sprinkle some of its blood directly before the tent of meeting seven times. ⁵ Then it will be burned in his sight. Its hide and its flesh and its blood, with her dung, will be burned. ⁶ And the priest will take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet and throw it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. ⁷ Then the priest will wash his clothes, and he will bathe his body in water, and afterward he will come into the camp, and the priest will be unclean until evening. ⁸ He who burns it will wash his clothes in water, and bathe his body in water, and will be unclean until evening.

⁹ A man who is clean will gather the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and it will be guarded for the assembly of the children of Israel for water of purification. It is for purifying from sin. ¹⁰ He that gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his clothes and be unclean until evening, and it will be for the children of Israel and for the foreigner that lives among them, for an eternal statute.