R. Hanan bar Pazzi opened [his discourse] with the verse in [the context of] the <i>parashah</i> of the [red] heifer, which contains seven [references to] seven things:<sup class="footnote-marker">57</sup><i class="footnote">Numb. R. 19:2, cont.; <i>PRK</i> 4:2; <i>PR</i> 14:6.</i> seven [references to] heifers,<sup class="footnote-marker">58</sup><i class="footnote">Numb. 19:2, 5, 6, 9, 10 account for five. Braude in his translation of <i>PR</i> 14:6, n. 21, following n. 31 in the Friedmann edition, notes that the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan does contain seven mentions of the heifer, with the extra references in vss. 7 &amp; 9. Braude and Kapstein in their translation of <i>PRK</i> 4:2, n. 31, allude to the tradition of only seven red heifers having been so offered since the days of Moses. See <i>Parah</i> 3:5.</i> seven [items for] burning,<sup class="footnote-marker">59</sup><i class="footnote">Vss. 5-6 mention the burning of skin, flesh, blood, dung, cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson stuff.</i> seven sprinklings,<sup class="footnote-marker">60</sup><i class="footnote">So vs. 4; see <i>Parah</i> 3:1, 9.</i> seven [instances of] laundering [clothes],<sup class="footnote-marker">61</sup><i class="footnote">Numb. 19:7, 8, 10, 19, 21. Braude and Kapstein, n. 34, suggest that Numb. 19:7, requires three launderings, one after each of the three stages in the rite, i.e., in vss. 3, 4, 6.</i> seven [ways of becoming] unclean,<sup class="footnote-marker">62</sup><i class="footnote">Vss. 14-16 mention entering a tent where someone has died, being in that tent, being an open vessel there, touching one killed in the open, touching one who died naturally, touching a human bone, or touching a grave.</i> seven [people or things who become] clean,<sup class="footnote-marker">63</sup><i class="footnote">Vss. 18f. explain how to cleanse the categories of uncleanness mentioned in the previous note.</i> and seven priests. If someone should say to you, ‘[The number of priests] is lacking,’ say to him, ‘Moses was [included] in the total, where it is stated (in Numb. 19:1-2), “Then the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ‘This is the statute of the Torah.’”’”