Deuteronomy 21:4

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and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. There at the wadi they are to break the heifer’s neck.

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  • 1 Pet 2:21-24 : 21 For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps. 22 He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

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    1Laws Concerning Unsolved Murder If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,

    2your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.

    3Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked– that has never pulled with the yoke–

  • Deut 21:5-7
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    5Then the Levitical priests will approach(for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name, and to decide every judicial verdict)

    6and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

    7Then they must proclaim,“Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we witnessed the crime.

  • Lev 4:14-15
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    14the assembly must present a young bull for a sin offering when the sin they have committed becomes known. They must bring it before the Meeting Tent,

    15the elders of the congregation must lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD, and someone must slaughter the bull before the LORD.

  • Num 19:2-6
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    2“This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded:‘Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without blemish, which has no defect and has never carried a yoke.

    3You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp, and it must be slaughtered before him.

    4Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times directly in front of the tent of meeting.

    5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight– its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.

    6And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning.

  • Lev 4:4
    75%

    4He must bring the bull to the entrance of the Meeting Tent before the LORD, lay his hand on the head of the bull, and slaughter the bull before the LORD.

  • Lev 4:10-12
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    11But the hide of the bull, all its flesh along with its head and its legs, its entrails, and its dung–

    12all the rest of the bull– he must bring outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ash pile, and he must burn it on a wood fire; it must be burned on the fatty ash pile.

  • Deut 19:12
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    12The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

  • Deut 13:15
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  • Lev 4:19-21
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    19“‘Then the priest must take all its fat and offer the fat up in smoke on the altar.

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    21He must bring the rest of the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull– it is the sin offering of the assembly.

  • Num 19:17
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    17“‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel.

  • Lev 17:3-4
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    3“Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,

    4but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.

  • Exod 21:28-29
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  • Exod 21:31
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    31If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

  • Lev 1:15-16
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    15The priest must present it at the altar, pinch off its head and offer the head up in smoke on the altar, and its blood must be drained out against the side of the altar.

    16Then the priest must remove its entrails by cutting off its tail feathers, and throw them to the east side of the altar into the place of fatty ashes,

  • Exod 21:35-36
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    35If the ox of one man injures the ox of his neighbor so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide its proceeds, and they will also divide the dead ox.

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  • Jer 34:19
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    19I will punish the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the other people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf.

  • Exod 29:11-12
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  • Deut 15:21
    70%

    21If they have any kind of blemish– lameness, blindness, or anything else– you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the LORD your God.

  • Num 19:8-9
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    70%

    8The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

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  • Deut 22:18
    70%

    18The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.

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  • Ezek 43:21
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    70%

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  • Lev 27:11
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    11If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the LORD, then he must stand the animal before the priest,

  • Lev 22:21
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  • Deut 22:21
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    10For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the wilderness. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.

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  • Deut 22:15
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