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     * a rough valley.
       As the word {nachal} signifies both a torrent, and the valley
       or glen through which it flows, {nachal aithan} may be
       rendered a rapid torrent.  Many torrents in Judea are dry
       during a great part of the year; when not only their banks but
       their beds may be ploughed, and yield a crop.  Hence there is
       no impropriety in specifying that such a place should be one
       that "is neither cared nor sown;" while the circumstance that
       the elders were to wash their hands over the heifer, whose
       head had been struck off into the stream, confirms this
       interpretation.  The spot of ground where this sacrifice was
       made must be uncultivated, because it was considered as a
       sacrifice for the atonement of murder, and, consequently,
       would pollute the land.

     * shall strike.
     # 1Pe 2:21-24; 3:18|