But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash ¹  their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, ¹  to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. ²  There at the wadi they are to break the heifer’s neck.

Then the heifer must be burned ¹  in his sight – its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned. ² 

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity, ¹ 

ram skins dyed red, ¹  fine leather, ²  acacia ³  wood,

ram skins dyed red, fine leather, ¹  acacia wood,

“Every firstborn of the womb ¹  belongs to me, even every firstborn ²  of your cattle that is a male, ³  whether ox or sheep.

And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, ¹  and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning. ² 

Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse ¹  must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked – that has never pulled with the yoke –

and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse ¹  must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. ² 

butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

honey, curds, flocks, and cheese. ¹  For they said, “The people are no doubt hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the desert.” ² 

“You are to make a covering ¹  for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather. ² 

He made a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather. ¹ 

and the coverings of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, ¹  and the protecting ²  curtain;

– just as it is taken from the ox of the peace offering sacrifice ¹  – and the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering.

Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying beam. ¹ 

Ish-bosheth ¹  was unable to answer Abner with even a single word because he was afraid of him.

“Does the wild donkey ¹  bray ²  when it is near grass? ³  Or ⁴  does the ox low near its fodder? ⁵ 

when my steps ¹  were bathed ²  with butter ³  and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil! ⁴