ḥattaʾt sacrifice, as has been demonstrated, is to remove contamination (ḥitteʾ means “decontaminate”). Hence, it should be rendered “purification offering.”1 Since the red cow is labeled a “burnt ḥattaʾt (v. 17), it falls into the category of the ḥattaʾt brought for severe impurities. Its flesh may not be eaten but is burned outside the camp (Lev. 4:6–7, 11–12; cf. 6:23; 10:18).2 Yet the difference in the ritual procedure is glaring: The blood of the red cow is not offered up on the altar