Numbers 19:2
“I am now giving to you another regulation. Tell the Israeli people to bring to you one reddish-brown cow that has no defects. It must be an animal that ◄has never been/no one has ever► used for plowing ground.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
1Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses/me,
Cross References
Exodus 12:5The lambs or goats that you choose must be males, one-year-old, and they must not have any defects.
Leviticus 1:10‘If you are offering a sheep or a goat, it must be a male without any defect.
Leviticus 22:20Do not bring any animals that have defects, because I will not accept them as an offering from you.
Numbers 31:21Then Eleazar said to the soldiers who had returned from the battle, “This is what Yahweh has instructed Moses:
1 Samuel 6:7“So you must build a new cart. Then get two cows that have very recently given birth to calves. They must be cows that have never been hitched to a cart [MTY]. Hitch those cows to the new cart, and take the calves away from their mothers.
Lamentations 1:14He caused the sins that we have committed to be like a heavy load for us to carry; it is as though [MET] he tied them around our necks. Previously we were strong, but he has caused us to become weak. He has allowed our enemies to capture us, and we were not able to do anything to resist them.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 19:2-11
The Ashes of Purification. ( b. c. 1471.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 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: 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and… Read the whole commentary →