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You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face:
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A Picture of Christ's Sacrifice
Commentators overwhelmingly see this ritual as a powerful foreshadowing of Jesus's sacrifice. Just as the heifer was taken 'outside the camp' to be slain, Jesus was crucified outside the gates of Jerusalem. As the heifer symbolically bore the people's impurity, Christ bore our sins, becoming a curse for us to bring us purification, a connection the book of Hebrews makes explicit (Hebrews 13:11–13).
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The work would necessarily require a priest; yet, as it made him unclean for the day (Numbers 19:22), the high priest was relieved from…
19th Century
Baptist
This was not a usual sacrifice, for the beasts offered were as a rule males; but this was to be a special sacrifice. It was not to be killed by the…
16th Century
Protestant
And you shall give her to Eleazar. A clear distinction is made here between two offerings; for the people are not permitted to kill the he…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall give her unto Eleazar the priest The son of Aaron; the Sagan of the priests, as the Targum of Jonathan…
The heifer was to be entirely burned. This typified the painful sufferings of our Lord Jesus, both in soul and body, as a sacrifice made by fire to…
