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Now the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,
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"This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and upon which a yoke has never come.
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And you shall give her to Elea'zar the priest, and she shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him;
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and Elea'zar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
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And the heifer shall be burned in his sight; her skin, her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burned;
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and the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet stuff, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
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Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until evening.
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He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
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And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the people of Israel for the water for impurity, for the removal of sin.