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What are Ashes?
        ASH'ES
     Gen 18:27. To cover the head with ashes, or to sit in ashes, betokens self-abhorrence, humiliation, extreme grief, or penitence. 2 Sam 13:19; Esth 4:3; Job 2:8; Jer 6:26; Lam 3:16; Jon 3:6; Matt 11:21. The ashes of the altar of burnt-offering on the days of the great festivals were suffered to accumulate, and then taken away the next day by a priest chosen by lot to this work. There was a sort of lye made of the ashes of the heifer sacrificed on the great day of expiation, which was used for ceremonial purification. Num 19:17,1 Sam 30:18. See Heifer.


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Schaff, Philip, Dr. "Biblical Definition for 'ashes' in Schaffs Bible Dictionary".
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