Chukkat

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The World Cow , 1913, (picture by Franz Marc )
Moses strikes water from a rock (illustration, 1728)

Chukkat ( Biblical Hebrew חֻקַּת 'Statute' ) refers to a reading section (called Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah and includes the text Numbers / Bemidbar 19–22.1 (19 BHS ; 20 BHS ; 21 BHS ; 22.1 BHS ).

It is the cider of the 5th Shabbat in the month of Siwan or the 1st or 2nd Shabbat in the month of Tammuz - if connected with Balak , the 2nd Shabbat in the month of Tammuz.

Essential content

  • YHWH orders Moses and Aaron how the priest Eleazar is to ritually sacrifice a red cow (Para adumma), gives rules for cleaning water and other rules for uncleanness.
  • Israel grumbling about lack of water.
  • Moses knocks water out of a rock.
  • Moses and Aaron's sin.
  • Edom's king refuses to allow passage through his country.
  • Appointment of Aaron's son Eleazar as his successor by putting on the priestly clothes.
  • Mirjam and Aaron die.
  • Victorious battle with the Canaanites.
  • Grumbling of Israel about lack of bread and water.
  • Great death from the bites of poisonous snakes.
  • Moses lifts up a copper serpent, the sight of which heals from snakebites.
  • Trains from Israel to the Arnon.
  • The Amorite king Sichon, who does not allow passage through his country, is defeated; likewise the hostile advancing Og , king of Bashan , whose lands Israel takes possession.

Haftara

The associated Haftara is usually Judge 11: 1-33  BHS , if the Sidra is combined with Balak , the Haftara is the Haftara of Balak .

Jiftach fights the Ammonites and promises YHWH the sacrifice of his daughter in case of victory. Jiftach finally wins and keeps his promise.

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  1. ↑ Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 152 (414 pp.).