Numbers 19:2-9

2“This is the legal statute that the Lord has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red cow that has no defect and has never been yoked.

3Give it to the priest Eleazar, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

4The priest Eleazar is to take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting.

5The cow is to be burned in his sight. Its hide, flesh, and blood are to be burned along with its waste.

6The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson yarn, and throw them onto the fire where the cow is burning.

7Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening.

8The one who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

9“A man who is clean is to gather up the cow’s ashes and deposit them outside the camp in a ceremonially clean place. The ashes will be kept by the Israelite community for preparing the water to remove impurity; it is a sin offering.