## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 209

###### Sifrei Devarim 209:1
[Sifrei Devarim 209:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/209:1)

(דברים כא ו) **וְכֹל זִקְנֵי הָעִיר הַהִיא**, וַאֲפִלּוּ הֵם מֵאָה. לְפִי שֶׁאָמַרְנוּ לְהַלָּן שְׁלֹשָׁה וַחֲמִשָּׁה, יָכוֹל אַף כָּאן כֵּן? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר **וְכֹל זִקְנֵי הָעִיר הַהִיא**, וַאֲפִלּוּ הֵם מֵאָה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim 21:6) "And all the elders of that city": Even if they are a hundred. Because we said above ([21:2] re the measuring), three or five, I might think that this is so here, too. (in respect to the washing of the hands); it is, therefore, written "and all the judges of that city" — even if they are a hundred.


###### Sifrei Devarim 209:2
[Sifrei Devarim 209:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/209:2)

**יִרְחֲצוּ אֶת יְדֵיהֶם עַל הָעֶגְלָה הָעֲרוּפָה בַּנָּחַל**, עַל מְקוֹם עֲרִיפָתָהּ שֶׁל עֶגְלָה. יָכוֹל יַעֲלוּ מִן הַנַּחַל וְיֹאמְרוּ? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **בַּנָּחַל**, שֶׁתְּהֵא עֲנִיָּתָם וַאֲמִירָתָם בַּנַּחַל.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"they shall wash their hands over the heifer of the broken neck in the river-bed": on the spot where its neck was broken. I might think that they may go up from the river-bed; it is, therefore, written "*in* the river-bed." (*Ibid*. 7) "And they shall answer and they shall say": Their washing and their saying must be in the river-bed.