حوقت

Also known as Hukath, HuQath, HuQat, Chukkas, Chukas

thumb|400px|right|Moses Striking Water from the Rock (painting circa 1633–1635 by Nicolas Poussin) Chukat, HuQath , Hukath, or Chukkas (—Hebrew for "decree," the ninth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 39th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the Book of Numbers. The parashah sets out the laws of corpse contamination (tumat hamet) and purification with the water of lustration prepared with the Red Cow (, parah adumah, also called the "Red Heifer"). It also reports the deaths of Miriam and Aaron, the failure