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ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon,
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"This is the regulation from the Torah which ADONAI has commanded. Tell the people of Isra'el to bring you a young red female cow without fault or defect and which has never borne a yoke.
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You are to give it to El'azar the cohen; it is to be brought outside the camp and slaughtered in front of him.
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El'azar the cohen is to take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle this blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
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The heifer is to be burned to ashes before his eyes -its skin, meat, blood and dung is to be burned to ashes.
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The cohen is to take cedar-wood, hyssop and scarlet yarn and throw them onto the heifer as it is burning up.
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Then the cohen is to wash his clothes and himself in water, after which he may re-enter the camp; but the cohen will remain unclean until evening.
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The person who burned up the heifer is to wash his clothes and himself in water, but he will remain unclean until evening.
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A man who is clean is to collect the ashes of the heifer and store them outside the camp in a clean place. They are to be kept for the community of the people of Isra'el to prepare water for purification from sin.