1
Barnabas next interprets the red heifer rite.
2
He describes the heifer slain and burned, its ashes gathered, scarlet wool and hyssop used, and the people sprinkled for purification.
3
He reads the heifer as a type of Yahushua and the sacrificers as those who delivered him to death.
4
The youths who sprinkle signify, in his interpretation, the proclaimers of release from sins.
5
He connects their number with the twelve tribes and the emissaries charged with the Besorah.
6
He associates three youths with Avraham, Yitzchaq, and Yaaqov.
7
The scarlet wool upon the tree again becomes, for Barnabas, a sign of the execution-tree and the Kingdom.
8
Hyssop represents the bitter and difficult days through which healing and endurance come.