Deuteronomy 21:1-9 explains a vicarious ordinance in the case of a murder where the murderer is unknown and therefore not available for punishment. A heifer, which had not been yoked or worked, had its neck struck off or broken in a valley by the elders of the nearest city, and the priests (sons of Levi) were witnesses. The elders washed their hands over the beheaded heifer, and proclaimed that they are not the murderers, and they did not see who did the murder. They prayed that the Lord “be merciful,” or in the Hebrew “let atonement be made for” the people of Israel so that the murder will not be charged to them, but will be forgiven them. By the proxy killing of the heifer, by the washing of their hands, and by their prayer the people of the city were saved from the punishment of God.
Baptism for the dead is mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15: 29. “Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?”
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