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Eleazar played a number of roles during the course of the Exodus, from creating the plating for the altar from the firepans of Korah's assembly, [2] to performing the ritual of the red heifer. [3] After the death of his older brothers Nadab and Abihu, he and his younger brother Ithamar were appointed to the charge of the sanctuary.
An unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel. A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a ...
Parah (Hebrew: פָּרָה) is the name of a treatise in the Mishnah and the Tosefta, included in the order Tohorot.The Pentateuchal law (Num. 19) decrees that a red heifer, "wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke," shall be burned and her ashes mixed with spring water, that the compound so obtained may be used to sprinkle and cleanse every one who becomes unclean.
“I felt like it was my duty as a Texan to go out and look around Texas and see if I could find some completely red, pure red cows that fulfill the requirements of the red heifer and, if I could ...
The masoretic text describes the water produced from the red heifer ritual as a sin offering; [20] some English translations discount this detail, because it differs from other sin offerings by not being killed at the altar, although biblical scholars believe that this demonstrates a failure by these translations to understand the meaning of ...
Moses Striking Water from the Rock (painting circa 1633–1635 by Nicolas Poussin). Chukat, HuQath, Hukath, or Chukkas (חֻקַּת —Hebrew for "decree," the ninth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 39th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the Book of Numbers.
The first time the word altar is mentioned and recorded in the Hebrew Bible is that it was erected by Noah, it does specify that there was an altar in (Genesis 8:20). [ clarification needed ] Other altars were erected by Abraham ( Genesis 12:7 ; 13:4 ; 13:18 ; 22:9 ), by Isaac ( Genesis 26:25 ), by Jacob ( 33:20 ; 35:1–3 ), by Moses ( Exodus ...
Mei hatat - water into which ashes of the red heifer were mixed; People who were involved in the red heifer procedure and in certain procedures of the Yom Kippur sacrifices; Niddah - a menstruant woman; a man who has had sex with such a woman; the woman's blood, spit, and urine; objects which she has sat, reclined, or rode upon