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And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Ils feront descendre cette génisse vers un torrent qui jamais ne tarisse et où il n'y ait ni culture ni semence; et là, ils briseront la nuque à la génisse, dans le torrent.

KJV

And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    son whereby a man is bound to raise another man's ass lying "underneath his burden," as commanded in Dt. 21:4 [* Ex. 23:5 ]. Reply to Objection 2: One ought not always to withstand a backbiter by endeavoring to convince him of falsehood, especially if one knows that he is speakin…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark

    [ Gen 38:30 ], that we may be able to say that the red heifer [ Num 19:2 ] is slain in the valley [ Deut 21:4 ]. For the Evangelist, being about to speak of the slaying of Christ, premises, “After two days was the feast of the Passover, and of unleavened bread.” Bede, Marc., iv,…

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