HEIFER

Passages on this topic · 14

• Numbers 19:2

  “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh 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.

• Deuteronomy 21:1

  If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him;

• Deuteronomy 21:2

  then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.

• Deuteronomy 21:3

  It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke.

• Deuteronomy 21:4

  The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

• Deuteronomy 21:5

  The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.

• Deuteronomy 21:6

  All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

• Deuteronomy 21:7

  They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

• Deuteronomy 21:8

  Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

• Deuteronomy 21:9

  So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

• Judges 14:18

  The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”

• Hosea 4:16

  For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

• Hosea 10:11

  Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.

• Hebrews 9:13

  For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: