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:
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Gill's Exposition
This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded,.... By which it appears, that this law was not of the moral, but of the ceremonial kind, being called an ordinance, a statute, a decree…
Barnes' Notes
A red heifer - Red, in order to shadow forth man’s earthly body, even as the name Adam bears allusion to the red earth of which man’s body was fashioned. Without spot, wherein is no blemish - As with…
We have here the divine appointment concerning the solemn burning of a red heifer to ashes, and the preserving of the ashes, that of them might be made, not a beautifying, but a purifying, water, for…
Cambridge Bible
a red heifer a red cow. The Heb. word is that ordinarily used for the full-grown animal (e.g. Gen 41:2-4; 1Sa 6:7). The reason for the particular colour is not known. The red animal and the scarlet…
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