You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.
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You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.
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And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
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And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take its blood, and dash it round about against the altar.
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- Exodus 29:11-12 You shall kill the bull before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 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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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and…
Exo 29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle [it] round about upon the altar.
Ver. 16. Sprinkle it.] See 1Pe 1:2.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Which signifies, that not only our persons, but our…
Which signifies, that not only our persons, but our very altars and sacrifices, and best services, need the sprinkling of Christ’s blood upon them to render them acceptable to God.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt slay the ram,.... As he was…
And thou shalt slay the ram,.... As he was ordered to slay the bullock, acting in this as a priest, as in that:
and thou shall take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar; the blood being received into a basin, it was not to be put upon the altar with the finger, as the blood of the bullock, but was to be sprinkled probably with a bunch of hyssop, round about upon the altar, on the top and sides: as the deity of Christ is the altar which sanctifies every gift, this may signify that his blood has its virtue and efficacy from that, to make atonement for the sins of men, and to cleanse them from them.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain About, upon the altar, and at the foot of…
About, upon the altar, and at the foot of it. So the pagans did. (Eusebius, præp. iv. 9.)
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).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. sprinkle] toss: viz. in a volume, out of…
16. sprinkle] toss: viz. in a volume, out of a tossing-vessel or basin (see on Exo_27:3). ‘Sprinkle’ not only conveys an incorrect idea of the action meant, but also confuses it with an entirely different action, correctly represented by ‘sprinkle’ (Lev_4:6; Lev_4:17; Lev_5:9 &c.): it is to be regretted that the distinction, obliterated in AV., but correctly pointed out in the Speaker’s Commentary (1. ii. 499b) in 1871, should not have been preserved in RV. The reader who desires to understand correctly the sacrificial ritual of the Hebrew should correct on the margin of his copy of the RV. toss or throw for ‘sprinkle’ (with against for ‘upon,’ where altar follows: see the next note) here, v. 20, Exo_24:6, Lev_1:5; Lev_1:11; Lev_3:2; Lev_3:8; Lev_3:13; Lev_7:2; Lev_7:14; Lev_8:19; Lev_8:24; Lev_9:12; Lev_9:18; Lev_17:6, Num_18:17; Num_19:13; Num_19:20 (but vv. 4, 18, 19, 21 ‘sprinkle’ is correct), 2Ki_16:13; 2Ki_16:15, Eze_43:18, 2Ch_29:22; 2Ch_30:16; 2Ch_35:11; also Eze_36:25 and Exo_9:8; Exo_9:10.
upon] against. As the Jews expressly state, the blood was thrown not upon the altar, but against the sides of it, and in such a manner that with two movements of the ‘tossing-vessel’ the blood was thrown against its four sides (Zebâḥim v. 4 ff.; Rashi on Lev_1:5). So Lev_1:5; Lev_1:11, &c.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) Thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it.—Rather,…
(16) Thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it.—Rather, scatter it. The act of throwing the blood from a basin against the lower part of the altar is intended. The verb is a different one from that rightly translated “sprinkle” in Exo_29:21. The LXX. render it by προσχεῖν, and the Vulg. by fundere.
Round about upon the altar.—Practically, this was done by casting it on two of the corners of the altar—the north-east and the south-west—thus moistening all the four sides (Middoth, 3:2).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thou shalt take his blood and sprinkle it. Rather,…
Thou shalt take his blood and sprinkle it. Rather, "and cast it." The blood was to be thrown from a basin, not sprinkled with the hand or with hyssop. Rabbinical tradition says that it was so cast at two of the corners, and thus moistened all the four sides. This was regarded as casting it "on the altar round about."
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