From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’

“And say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat.

Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!”

And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.

The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humankind, appoint a man over the community,

And do this to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification on them; then have them shave all their body and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

Moses said, “The people around me are 600,000 on foot; but you say, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.

Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”

Then the heifer must be burned in his sight – its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.

Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and afterward he may come into the camp, but the priest will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

The firstborn of every womb which they present to the Lord, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.