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Numbers 15
Laws for offerings once Israel enters the land, for unintentional sins and for defiant sin. A man gathering wood on the Sabbath is put to death, and the people are told to wear tassels on their garments to remember the commandments.
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Three tenths of an ephah of flour for each bull, two tenths for each ram and one tenth for each lamb; drink offerings of about ½, ⅓ and ¼ hin of wine.
The flour is stated in Numbers 29:14–15. Numbers 29 says only 'according to their number' for the drink offerings; the wine measures come from the general rule in Numbers 15:5–10.
- Plausible
Was tekhelet sky blue or blue-violet? Sky blue: the murex dye exposed to sunlight in the vat, as the dye is made today; the Talmud likens tekhelet to the sea and the sky.
The modern murex tekhelet makers and many rabbinic readers
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Was tekhelet sky blue or blue-violet? Blue-violet or hyacinth: the Greek hyakinthos and the Latin hyacinthinus are dark violet-blue, the colour the same dye gives without sunlight.
Many scholars of ancient dyes, from the Greek and Latin terms