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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.
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Verse 3. Heifer, not above three years old, say the Rabbins. The pagans esteemed those victims more agreeable to the gods, which had not been yoked. Chermon observes, that the Egyptians rejected such as had been once “consecrated to labour.” Grotius.—This circumstance might here indicate, that the murderer was a son of Belial, or “without yoke;” (Calmet. 13:13. Menochius.) and the heifer was slain to shew what he deserved, and must expect if he be discovered. Bible.
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