² “This is the decree of the law that Yahweh has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the Israelites^[a] and let them take to you a red heifer without a physical defect, on which a yoke has not been placed.^{[b] 3} And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be brought^[c] out to a place outside the camp, and it will be slaughtered^[d] in his presence. ⁴ Then Eleazar the priest will take some of its blood on his finger and spatter it toward the mouth of the tent of assembly seven times.