682 Exod. xxx. 3.

683 Exod. xxxviii. 1.

684 Num. iv. 26.

685 Lev. ix. 5.

686 Exod. xxx. 18.

687 2 Chron. iv. 6.

688 1 Kings vii. 23, 26.

689 2 Chron. iv. 5.

690 Ezek. xlv. 11, 14.

691 Lev. xv. 13.

692 2 Chron. iv. 2.

693 2 Chron. iv. 4.

694 2 Chron. iv. 3.

695 The Jerusalem Talmud states that the water poured through the feet
of the oxen, and that this was the well of Etham.

696 Num. iii. 29.

697 Num. iii. 31.

698 Num. iii. 23.

699 Num. iv. 25.

700 Num. iii. 35.

701 Num. iii. 36.

702 Num. iii. 38.

703 Num. ii. 17.

704 Num. x. 14.

705 Num. iv. 5.

706 Num. x. 21.

707 Num. iv. 15.

708 Num. x. 22.

709 Num. ii. 17.

710 Num. ix. 18.

711 Num. ix. 23.

712 Num. x. 2.

713 Exod. xl. 34.

714 Exod. xl. 38.

715 Isa. lx. 1, 19, 20.

716 Exod. xxx. 6.

717 Exod. xxx. 36.

718 Exod. xxix. 42.

719 The Jews say that Solomon, who understood all the commands of God,
could not comprehend the full meaning of the Red Heifer.

720 The meaning is that he who spends as much time in a leprous house as
is sufficient for eating a loaf of such a size, becomes defiled in
his garments. See "Leprosy," xiii. 10.

721 Num. viii. 8.

722 The age of the lamb was reckoned from its birthday in Elul of last
year till the first day of Elul in the current year.

723 Lev. xxiii. 10, 17. The omer or wave-sheaf of barley was always cut
on the evening of the 15th Nisan, even though it were a Sabbath. It
must always have been gathered from a fresh harvest cultivated even
in the Sabbatical year. The reapers asked these questions three
times of those who were witnesses, "Has the sun gone down?" "With
this sickle?" "Into this basket?" "On this Sabbath [first day of the
Passover]?" "Shall I reap?" After the witnesses answered these
questions the sheaf was reaped. It was finally ground into flour,
and a handful of it mixed with frankincense was burned on the altar.
The remainder belonged to the priests.

724 Num. xxviii. The two wave-loaves of wheaten flour were always
offered on the Jewish Pentecost.

725 Deut. xxiii. 18.

726 Nehem. ii. 8. 1 Chron. xxix. 1.

727 According to Jewish tradition a dead body covered in with earth
conveyed legal uncleanness to everyone who walked over it; b