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The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.
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Verse 6. Dyed. With which the cedar and hyssop were tied together, as being deemed most proper instruments of purifications. Leviticus 14:4. 49. Saint Paul informs us (Hebrews 9:19,) that Moses thus sprinkled the people and the book: and branches of this description were probably used when the people took this holy water, verse 18. The ashes intimate that those who have sinned, may be purified by the sacrament of penance, verse 9. Calmet.
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