“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:”
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'If anyone of you or of your generations comes into contact with a human corpse, he shall be unclean for seven days' — contact with death immediately severs communion with the holy. The regulation assumes death is inevitable in the wilderness; the people need a mechanism for restoration. Without the red heifer ordinance, entire families could remain cut off from worship and community indefinitely.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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