'Cow' in the Bible
He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
“This is the legal statute that the Lord has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red cow that has no defect and has never been yoked.
The cow must be burned in his sight. Its hide, flesh, and blood, are to be burned along with its dung.
The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson yarn, and throw them onto the fire where the cow is burning.
The one who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
The elders of the city nearest to the victim are to get a young cow that has not been yoked or used for work.
The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.
On the seventh day, before sunset, the men of the city said to him:What is sweeter than honey?What is stronger than a lion?So he said to them:If you hadn’t plowed with my young cow,you wouldn’t know my riddle now!
Samuel asked, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!”The Lord answered, “Take a young cow with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’
The cow and the bear will graze,their young ones will lie down together,and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Egypt is a beautiful young cow,but a horsefly from the north is coming against her.
Because you rejoice,because you sing in triumph—you who plundered My inheritance—because you frolic like a young cow treading grainand neigh like stallions,
He replied to me, “Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that.”
For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn cow.Can the Lord now shepherd themlike a lamb in an open meadow?
Ephraim is a well-trained calfthat loves to thresh,but I will place a yoke on her fine neck.I will harness Ephraim;Judah will plow;Jacob will do the final plowing.