1. Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2. “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which a yoke has never come.
3. You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it outside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him;
4. and Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of meeting.