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  2. Water of lustration - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Red heifer - Wikipedia

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    According to the Mishnah, the ceremony of the sacrifice and burning of the red heifer took place on the Mount of Olives. A ritually pure kohen slaughtered the heifer and sprinkled its blood in the direction of the Temple seven times. The red heifer was then burned on a pyre, together with wool dyed scarlet, hyssop, and cedarwood to ashes. The ...

  4. Parah - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Jewish leaders in Israel needed a red heifer for a temple ...

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    According to The Jerusalem Post, the red heifer appears in a portion of the Book of Numbers 19:3 that reads “This is the ritual law that God has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring ...

  6. Kallal - Wikipedia

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    According to rabbinical sources, the kallal was a small stone urn kept in the Tabernacle and later in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem which contained the ashes of a red heifer. The Hebrew Bible does not mention any urn in the Numbers 19 account. [1] Kallal is the Aramaic word for a stone vessel or pitcher.

  7. Valley of Josaphat - Wikipedia

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    Josias scattered upon the tombs of the children of Israel the ashes of the idol of the goddess Astarte which he burned in Cedron (2 Kings 23:4). The Valley of Jehoshaphat is applied to the Kidron Valley , between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives , for the first time by the Pilgrim of Bordeaux in 333.

  8. Ancient amulet showing biblical king spearing devil is unearthed

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    The amulet was found during an ongoing excavation project in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city near Karabük, Turkey. Ancient amulet showing biblical king spearing devil is unearthed Skip to main content

  9. Heartbreaking images show California wildfire destroying ...

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    Photos and videos of the Mountain Fire show hills ablaze and encircled in smoke, as firefighters try to extinguish the flames and keep it from spreading.