High-priest, wash once." He descended and washed, and he came up and wiped
himself. And wood was set in order there, cedar and ash and cypress and
fig-wood smoothed. And it was made like a tower, and windows were opened
in it, and their direction was westward.

9. The red heifer was bound with a rope of bulrushes and she was put on
the place of preparation, with her head southward and with her face
westward. The priest stood in the east with his face westward. He
slaughtered the heifer with his right hand, and received (the blood) in
his left hand. R. Judah said, "he received it in his right hand and put it
into his left, and sprinkled it with his right hand." He dipped his hand,
and sprinkled the blood seven times in front of the House of the Holy of
Holies. For every sprinkling of blood he dipped his hand. When he finished
sprinkling the blood he wiped his hand on the body of the heifer. He went
down and kindled the fire with chips. Rabbi Akiba said, "with
palm-branches."

10. She burst and moved from her place. He took cedar-wood and hyssop and
scarlet (wool). He said to them, "is this cedar-wood, is this cedar-wood?"
"is this hyssop, is this hyssop?" "is this scarlet, is this scarlet?"
three times for each thing. And they said to him, "yes," "yes," three
times for each thing.

11. He wrapped them in the remainder(732) of the tongue of scarlet wool,
and cast them into the midst of the burning. When the fire was burned
down, the ashes were beaten with sticks and sifted with sieves. R. Ishmael
said, "with stone hammers, and the work was finished with stone sieves." A
black piece in which there are ashes must be pulverized, and that which
has no ashes is left. Bones with or without ashes were pulverized. And
they were divided into three parts. One part was put in the Chel, and one
was put on the Mount of Olives, and one was divided for all the
guards(733) (_i.e._, the representatives of all Israel).

Chapter IV

1. "The heifer which was slaughtered without the proper intention, (the
priest) caught the blood and sprinkled it without the proper intention, or
with the proper intention and afterward without the proper intention, or
without the proper intention and (afterward) with the proper intention?"
"She is disallowed." R. Eliezer "allowed her." "And if the priest did not
wash his hands and his feet?" "She is disallowed." R. Eliezer "allowed
her." "If she was not slaughtered by the High-priest?" "She is
disa