* the ordinance.
  31:21  Heb 9:10 
 * a red heifer.
   The following curious particulars have been remarked in this
   ordinance:  1.  A heifer was appointed for sacrifice, in
   opposition to the Egyptian superstition, which held these
   sacred, and worshipped their goddess Isis under this form; and
   this appears the more likely, because males only were chosen
   for sacrifice.  So Herodotus says, they sacrifice males, both
   old and young; but it is not lawful for them to offer females.
   2.  It was to be a red heifer, because the Egyptians
   sacrificed red bulls to the evil demon Typhon.  3.  It was to
   be without spot, having no mixture of any other colour.
   Plutarch says, the Egyptians "sacrifice red bulls, and select
   them with such scrupulous attention, that if the animal has a
   single black or white hair, they reckon it [athuton,] unfit
   to be sacrificed."  4.  Without blemish.  (See note on Le
   22:21.)  5.  On which never came yoke:  because an animal
   which had been used for a common purpose was deemed improper
   for sacrifice.

  6  Le 14:6  Isa 1:18  Re 1:5 
 * no blemish.  See on
  Ex 12:5  Le 22:20-25  Mal 1:13,14  Lu 1:35  Heb 7:26  1Pe 1:19 
  1Pe 2:22 
 * upon which.
  De 21:3  1Sa 6:7  La 1:14  Joh 10:17,18  Php 2:6-8