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The entire heifer is to be incinerated in his presence, including its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its dung. Then the priest is to take some cedar[a] wood, hyssop, and scarlet material and throw it into the middle of the burning heifer. The priest is to wash his clothes and bathe himself[b] with water, after which he may enter the camp, but he is to remain unclean until evening.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 19:6 I.e. a genus of coniferous evergreen in the family Pinaceae; and so throughout the book
  2. Numbers 19:7 Lit. bathe his flesh