[b-hebrew] red heifer
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Wed Dec 22 08:48:51 EST 2004
At 08:44 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
>All very intersting, but my question was, why the translators took such a
>general term as "cow" and translated it as the more narrow "heifer". Did
>they have any reason to think that this particular cow was special in any
>way, besides its color?
>
>Yigal
Isn't a heifer a virgin? And if so, it seems there would be significant
reasons for suggesting that this special cow was even more special. Now
forgive me - because I'm not a farmer- if I'm wrong about the virgin cow thing.
Jim
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