Deuteronomy 21:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked, one that has not pulled in the yoke;

Cross References

Jeremiah 31:18

Indeed, I heard Ephraim pleading: “You disciplined me, and I took the discipline; I was like an untrained calf. Bring me back; let me come back, for you are the Lord my God.

Numbers 19:2

“This is a statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish and on which no yoke has been laid.

Deuteronomy 10:8

At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.

Deuteronomy 21:2

then your elders and your judges shall come out to measure the distances to the towns that are near the body.

Deuteronomy 21:4

the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi.

Philippians 2:8

he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.

1 Samuel 6:7

Now then, get ready a new cart and two milch cows that have never borne a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.