Numbers 19:1-3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Ceremony of the Red Heifer

19 Now the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, ² “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. ³ And you shall give her to Elea′zar the priest, and she shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him;