They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.

So Moses brought out all the staffs from before the Lord to all the Israelites. They looked at them, and each man took his staff.

“This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded: ‘Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without blemish, which has no defect and has never carried a yoke.