Numbers 19:2
“This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.
This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
“This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.
This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the ordinance
- Numbers 31:21; Hebrews 9:10
- a red heifer
- The following curious particulars have been remarked in this ordinance: 1. A heifer was appointed for sacrifice, in opposition to the Egyptian superstition, which held these sacred, and worshipped their goddess Isis under this form; and this appears the more likely, because males only were chosen for sacrifice. So Herodotus says, they sacrifice males, both old and young; but it is not lawful for them to offer females. 2. It was to be a red heifer, because the Egyptians sacrificed red bulls to the evil demon Typhon. 3. It was to be without spot, having no mixture of any other colour. Plutarch says, the Egyptians "sacrifice red bulls, and select them with such scrupulous attention, that if the animal has a single black or white hair, they reckon it [athuton,] unfit to be sacrificed." 4. Without blemish. (See note on Le 22:21.) 5. On which never came yoke: because an animal which had been used for a common purpose was deemed improper for sacrifice.
- Numbers 19:6; Leviticus 14:6; Isaiah 1:18; Revelation 1:5
- no blemish
- See on
- Exodus 12:5; Leviticus 22:20–25; Malachi 1:13, 14; Luke 1:35; Hebrews 7:26; 1 Peter 1:19; 1 Peter 2:22
- upon which
- Deuteronomy 21:3; 1 Samuel 6:7; Lamentations 1:14; John 10:17, 18; Philippians 2:6–8