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Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke.
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You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face:
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and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
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One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
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and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
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Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
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He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
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A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
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He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourns among them, for a statute forever.