Numbers 19:5
And shall burn her in the sight of all, delivering up to the fire her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, and her dung.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- comburetque eam cunctis videntibus, tam pelle et carnibus ejus quam sanguine et fimo flammæ traditis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ κατακαύσουσιν αὐτὴν ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ· καὶ τὸ δέρμα καὶ τὰ κρέα αὐτῆς καὶ τὸ αἷμα αὐτῆς σὺν τῇ κόπρῳ αὐτῆς κατακαυθήσεται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְשָׂרַ֥ף אֶת הַפָּרָ֖ה לְעֵינָ֑יו אֶת עֹרָ֤הּ וְאֶת בְּשָׂרָהּ֙ וְאֶת דָּמָ֔הּ עַל פִּרְשָׁ֖הּ יִשְׂרֹֽף
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Eustochium
12. I linger long in the land of the midday sun for it was there and then that the spouse found her bridegroom at rest and Joseph drank wine with his brothers once more. I will return to Jerusalem and, passing through Tekoa the home of Amos, I will look upon the glistening cross of Mount Olivet from which the Saviour made His ascension to the Father. Here year by year a red heifer was burned as a holocaust to the Lord and its ashes were used to purify the children of Israel. Here also according to Ezekiel the Cherubim after leaving the temple founded the church of the Lord.