All very intersting, but my question was, why the translators took such aI would guess that the translators linked Numbers 21:2 with Genesis 15:9 where a three-year-old animal is specified, and with Deuteronomy 21:3 where the animal has never been worked, and so is presumably young. LXX has DAMALIS in each case, although not everywhere for PARAH e.g. not in 1 Samuel 6:7. So this was the interpretation of the LXX translators, which in this case might give an indication of ancient practice.
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?
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