You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.
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You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.
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And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
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And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger; and thou shalt pour out all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.
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Passages linked to Exodus 29:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 27:2 You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
- Leviticus 8:15 He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
- Leviticus 9:9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar;
- Exodus 30:2 Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
- Exodus 38:2 He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
- Leviticus 4:7 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 4:18 He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 4:25 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
- Leviticus 4:30 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
- Leviticus 4:34 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
- Leviticus 5:9 He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 16:14 He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
- Leviticus 16:18-19 “He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar. He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
- Hebrews 9:13-14 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
- Hebrews 10:4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 29:12 And thou shalt take of the blood…
Exo 29:12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
Ver. 12. The blood of the bullock.] For "without blood there was no remission of sin." {Heb 9:22}
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Beside the bottom of the altar.] To signify the plenteous redemption wrought by Christ.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Upon the horns of the altar; not of incense,…
Upon the horns of the altar; not of incense, as some would have it, but of the burnt-offerings, as may appear,
1. Because it was that altar at the bottom whereof the blood was to be poured, as it is here expressed; but that was not done at the altar of incense, as is evident and confessed. Compare Lev 16:18, &c.
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2. It was that altar upon which the parts of the sacrifices were burnt, as it here follows, Exo 29:13, for there is no distinction here between the two altars. It is true, in the following sin-offerings of the priests the blood was put upon the horns of the altar of incense, Lev 4:7. But it must be considered,
1. That the blood was not poured out at the bottom of that altar.
2. Because Aaron and his sons were not yet complete priests, but private persons, and therefore did this at the same altar which the people used in their sin-offerings, Lev 4:25,30.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt take the blood of the bullock,....…
And thou shalt take the blood of the bullock,.... Being slain, and its blood received into a basin:
and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger; not sprinkle it with hyssop, as was done in some cases, but put on with the finger dipped into the blood in the basin; as the horns of the altar were the place where the sacrifice was bound, as some think, or however where persons in distress fled for refuge, and laid hold on, it may figure the blood of Christ, being effectual to the cleansing of their souls, and the remission of their sins, through the application of it to them by the Spirit of God:
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and pour all the blood beside at the bottom of the altar; the rest of the blood not put upon the horns of the altar, all that was left of it. Jarchi says, there was a receptacle (for it) that protruded from around the altar, about a cubit from the ground; and here it was that the blood was poured.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Horns. This was done in all the sacrifices of…
Horns. This was done in all the sacrifices of expiation. After Aaron was ordained, he carried the blood into the sanctuary, for the sins of all. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. Put it upon the horns of the altar…
12. Put it upon the horns of the altar — Thus sanctifying the altar itself that it might in turn sanctify the offerings put thereon.
Pour… beside the bottom of the altar — Thus the substituted lives went out in blood under the altar, (comp. the “souls under the altar” in Rev_6:9,) and made atonement for human lives. Comp. Lev_17:11.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. The Hebrew regarded the blood as the seat…
12. The Hebrew regarded the blood as the seat of the ‘soul,’ or principle of life; and it was in virtue of the ‘soul’ that was in it, that it made atonement (see Lev_17:11). By its application to the horns of the altar (cf. Lev_4:25; Lev_4:30; Lev_4:34),—as in other cases to those of the altar of incense, or to the mercy-seat (Lev_4:7; Lev_4:18; Lev_16:14-15),—it was brought near to Jehovah.
upon the horns (Exo_27:2) of the altar] i.e. of the altar of burnt-offering (Exo_27:1 ff.), exactly as in the cases of the sin-offering for laymen specified in Lev_4:25; Lev_4:30; Lev_4:34 (contrast Exo_29:6 f., Exo_29:17 f.): the priests, before their consecration is completed, are treated as laity.
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at the base of the altar] as in the ordinary sin-offering, Lev_4:7; Lev_4:18; Lev_4:25; Lev_4:30; Lev_4:34; cf. Lev_5:9; Lev_8:15 (the parallel to the present passage), Exo_9:9. The ‘base’ (lit. foundation) of the altar is mentioned only in these passages. On the additions in Lev_8:15, respecting the atonement made for the altar, see below, on v. 36.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) Thou shalt take of the blood . .…
(12) Thou shalt take of the blood . . . and put it upon the horns of the altar.—It has been already noticed that the virtue of the altar was considered to reside especially in its horns; hence fugitives clung to them (1Ki_1:50; 1Ki_2:28). In all sin offerings it was required (1) That some of the victim’s blood should be smeared upon the altar’s horns; and (2) That the remainder should be poured at its base (Lev_4:7; Lev_4:18; Lev_4:30; Lev_4:34).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thou shalt take of the blood, and put it…
Thou shalt take of the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar. The virtue of the altar was regarded as residing especially in its horns. Here expiation was obtained by the blood is the life of the victim being first smeared upon the four horns, and then the remainder poured out at the altar"s base. Such was the usual practice with "sin-offerings" (Lev_4:7) whereof this was to be the first example.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
General Information:
Yahweh continues speaking to Moses.
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the horns
These were projections that looked like ox horns attached to the four corners of the altar. See how you translated this in Exodus 27:2.
the rest of the blood
"the remaining blood"
covers the inner parts
"covers the organs"
liver ... kidneys
These are organs in the body.
But as for the bull's flesh, as well as its skin and dung
"But as for the remaining parts of the bull"
translationWords
cow
blood
altar
flesh
dung
sin offering
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