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Red heifer

A red Angus cow which is grown by the Temple Institute for the red heifer sacrifice in the reconstruction of the Third Temple of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel.
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The red heifer (Hebrew: פָּרָה אֲדֻמָּה, romanized: pārā ʾăḏummā), a cow which is never pregnant, milked, or yoked, also known as the red cow, is a cow sacrificed by the priests as a sacrifice to Yahweh in the Torah, Bible, Quran. Its ashes after being sacrificed and burned were used for the ritual purification of corpse uncleanness caused by an Israelite coming into contact with a human corpse, a human bone, or a human grave. [1]

  1. ^ Carmichael, Calum (2022). The Book of Numbers: a Critique of Genesis. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. 103–121. ISBN 9780300179187.