Study it in the app““This is the statute of the instruction that YHWH has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel, that they bring you a red cow whole, on which there is no defect, and on which a yoke has never come.”
“This isזֹאתthe statuteחֻקַּתof the instructionהַתּוֹרָהthatאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהhas commanded,צִוָּהsaying,לֵאמֹר‘Speakדַּבֵּרtoאֶלthe sonsבְּנֵיof Israel,יִשְׂרָאֵלthat they bringוְיִקְחוּyouאֵלֶיךָa redאֲדֻמָּהcowפָרָהwhole,תְּמִימָהon whichאֲשֶׁר בָּהּthere is noאֵיןdefect,מוּםand on whichאֲשֶׁר עָלֶיהָa yokeעֹלhas neverלֹאcome.עָלָה
statute
Statute: a fixed rule, laid down to be kept always.
Where else “chukat” appearsteaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “tora” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiva” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “daber” appearsdescendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “bene” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearsfetch
To take someone along, or go and fetch something.
Where else “yikchu” appearsred
Red, reddish.
Where else “aduma” appearscow
Cow, heifer.
Where else “fara” appearswithout defect
Without defect, whole.
Where else “temima” appearsblemish
A flaw in the body that mars it or makes it unfit.
Where else “mum” appearsyoke
Yoke: the wooden piece joining two oxen; figuratively, being subject to another.
Where else “ol” appearsgo up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “ala” appears1YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2 · This verse (above)
3And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside the camp, and one shall slaughter her before him.
