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The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox

priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Chapter 19.

Now, the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying,

This is the injunction of the law, whatever the Lord ordered, saying, speak to the

children of Israel, and let them bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which there

is no defect, and upon which a yoke has never been placed.

You shall give it to Elyazer the priest, and he shall take it outside the camp to a clean place,

and they shall slaughter it before him.

And Elyazer the priest shall take some of its blood and sprinkle it seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of testimony.

Then it shall be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flash, and

its blood, with its dung shall be burned. The priest shall then take Cedarwood and Hissop and

scarlet and cast them into the midst of the fire burning the red heifer. So we're getting this

whole other ritual, which we haven't seen before. Notice some of the things that are being done, though.

So that might be unusual.

So first of all, it's identifying this as not just a heifer, but one that is red in color,

which we haven't seen a lot about color right before.

Notice it's also taken and slaughtered outside the camp.

So this is not something that's happening in the tabernacle,

which means at least at this phase that we've read.

So this is not a sacrifice per se because it's not being done in the tabernacle.

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