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Something to keep in mind:
The Red Heifer sacrifice, detailed in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Numbers (Numbers 19:1-22), was not directly for the atonement of sins in the way sacrifices were typically understood in other contexts, such as the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Instead, the Red Heifer sacrifice was a unique and complex ritual meant for purification, specifically to address the ritual impurity associated with death.
From this church; https://hcog.tv/the-sacrifice-of-a-red-heifer/
According to the commandment, a Red Heifer without blemish and that had never been yoked was to be sacrificed outside the camp. Its ashes were then mixed with water to create a solution known as the "water of purification." This water was used to purify people and objects that had come into contact with a corpse, which was considered a source of major impurity in ancient Israelite religion.

The ritual of the Red Heifer is distinctive because it was one of the few that took place outside the sanctuary, it required a completely red cow, and the ashes could purify people from the impurity caused by death, which was seen as the most severe form of impurity. Interestingly, the ceremony also rendered those who performed it—slaughtering the heifer, burning it, and mixing its ashes with water—ritually impure, even though the ashes themselves were used to purify others.

So, while the Red Heifer sacrifice was not about atoning for sins in the moral or ethical sense, it played a crucial role in the religious and communal life of ancient Israel by addressing the profound concept of purity and impurity, especially as it related to the inevitability of death and the need for a community to be ritually prepared to approach the divine.
The imagery of the red heifer is yet another foreshadowing of the sacrifice of Christ for believers’ sin. The Lord Jesus was “without blemish,” just as the red heifer was to be. He knew no sin. No guile was found in His mouth. He was the Spotless Lamb of God. Are you ready to meet the Lord?

Much of this material was taken from various Jewish websites.

Numbers 19:1-10
1 Now the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, 2 “This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and upon which a yoke has never come. 3 And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and she shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him; 4 and Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. 5 And the heifer shall be burned in his sight; her skin, her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burned; 6 and the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet stuff, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until evening. 8 He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening. 9 And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the people of Israel for the water for impurity, for the removal of sin. 10 And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. And this shall be to the people of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourns among them, a perpetual statute.

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