This pasuk is describing the mitzvah of terumas ha’deshen, the daily removal of ashes from the mizbeiach and placing them on the floor right next to it. The Gemara in Pesachim (26a) says that we also learn from this pasuk that the ashes remain assur b’hanaah. It is prohibited to derive benefit from them. Normally, once the mitzvah of a particular kadosh item is completed – naaseis mitzvaso – its prohibition falls away. It is no longer forbidden to derive benefit from it. (For example, blood of korbanos that has already been sprinkled on the mizbeiach, one is m’d’Oraysah allowed to use as fertilizer.) This is a general rule: naaseis mitzvaso, the mitzvah has been completed so the item is no longer prohibited to use for personal benefit.
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