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.
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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.
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And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
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And when it was slain, Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the remaining blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
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- 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.
- Exodus 29:10-12 “You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. 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.
- Exodus 29:36-37 Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it. You shall anoint it, to sanctify it. Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
- Leviticus 1:5 He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 1:11 He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
- Leviticus 3:2 He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
- Leviticus 3:8 and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
- Leviticus 4:17-18 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil. 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 4:30 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 6:30 No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.
- Leviticus 16:20 “When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.
- 2 Chronicles 29:24 Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
- Ezekiel 43:19-27 You shall give to the Levitical priests who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘a young bull for a sin offering. You shall take of its blood, and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. You shall cleanse it and make atonement for it that way. You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary. “On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull. When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect. You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh. “Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect. Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it. So shall they consecrate it. When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings. Then I will accept you,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
- Ezekiel 45:20 So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house.
- Daniel 9:24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- Romans 5:10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
- 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- Ephesians 2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.
- Colossians 1:21-22 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds, yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
- Hebrews 2:17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
- Hebrews 9:18-23 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.” Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood. According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Of the burnt offering.
Of the burnt offering.
To offer for the sins of the people.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he slew it,.... Not Aaron, nor any of…
And he slew it,.... Not Aaron, nor any of his sons, who as yet were not fully consecrated and installed into their office, but Moses, as follows:
and Moses took the blood; which was received into a basin when the bullock was slain:
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and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger; upon the four horns of the altar, which were at the four corners of it, and dipping his finger into the blood, he besmeared the horns with it, and drew it about with his finger here and there; and so is said to be done round about the altar, as these horns were:
and purified the altar; or cleansed it; not from moral guilt and pollution, which it was incapable of, but from all ceremonial pollution it might be supposed to have:
and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar; the rest of the blood he did not use about the horns:
and sanctified it; separated it from common to sacred use:
to make reconciliation upon it; that it might be fit to have sacrifices offered on it to make atonement and reconciliation for sins; for which reason it was necessary it should itself be pure and holy, in such sense it was capable of being so.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 8:15. Moses took the blood, &c., and purified…
Lev 8:15. Moses took the blood, &c., and purified the altar — This ceremony of touching the altar with blood emphatically signified that all the services which they offered to God partook of their impurity, and that the very altar which consecrated their oblations was defiled by their unhallowed touch. But the sprinkling it with the blood of the victim, which, by divine appointment, was substituted and accepted instead of the forfeited life of the sinner, made room for repentance, the removal of guilt, and purification; on which account the altar is said to be purified and sanctified by this action.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. Blood… horns — Lev_4:7, note.
15. Blood… horns — Lev_4:7, note.
Purified the altar — The altar, the work of the hands of sinful men, is viewed as sinful. In Lev_8:11 it is sanctified, and now it is expiated with blood. A holy life cannot be maintained on the earth without the blood of atonement being constantly sprinkled upon it. 1Jn_1:7, note.
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Sanctified — The sanctification by oil is a setting apart, the blood sanctification is a thorough purgation of the very nature.
To make reconciliation upon it — The Hebrew is capable of this construction. But precisely the same words in Lev_1:4, are rendered to make atonement for him. The personified altar needs an atonement as much as its imperfect minister.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14–30. (d) the sacrificial part of the rite, consisting…
14–30. (d) the sacrificial part of the rite, consisting of:
(i) The Sin-Offering (Lev_8:14-17, cp. Exo_29:10-14)
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A bullock, the most costly animal, appointed for ‘the anointed priest,’ or for ‘the whole congregation’ (Lev_4:3; Lev_4:14), on which Aaron and his sons laid their hands (see on Lev_1:4). It appears that the selection of the animal indicates the sacred office to which Aaron and his sons are to be admitted, but until they are consecrated, the ritual of the offering is the same as that prescribed in the case of private individuals (cp. Lev_4:30; Lev_4:34). Some of the blood is put on the horns of the altar, and the rest is poured out at the base of the altar.
15. And he slew it] Comparison with Exo_29:11 shews that Moses slew it, but the text here might be interpreted, and he (Aaron) slew it, especially as it is followed by ‘and Moses took.…’ The same remark applies to Lev_8:19 and Lev_8:23; cp. Exo_29:16; Exo_29:20. In all the verses here cited, the Heb. verb is the same, but is rendered by both ‘kill’ and ‘slay.’
at the base of the altar] see on Lev_4:7.
and purified the altar … and sanctified it by making atonement for it] These clauses are not found in Exo_29:12, but occur in Exo_29:36-37 of that ch. The altar had already been anointed (Lev_8:11); it is now further sanctified by the blood of the Sin-Offering.
The words ‘purify’ here, and ‘cleanse’ (purge R.V. mg.) in Exo_29:36 are translations of the same Heb. verb. As in English ‘to stone plums’ means to remove the stones, so in Heb. a verb corresponding to a noun is sometimes used in the same way. Here the Heb. verb corresponds to the noun ‘sin,’ and means to ‘remove sin’; it occurs also in Lev_14:49; Lev_14:52 (of a leprous house), and Eze_43:20-23 with reference to the altar (see note on Exo_29:36). The rendering ‘by making atonement’ is like R.V. mg. of the passage in Exo_29:36.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) And he slew it.—Better, and he killed it,…
(15) And he slew it.—Better, and he killed it, as it is rendered in the Authorised Version, in Lev_8:19. In ordinary cases the offerer himself slaughtered the victim (see Lev_1:5), but in the case before us Moses performed this act in accordance with the command in Exo_29:11.
And Moses took the blood.—That is, having caught the blood in the bowl, he threw it upon the four corners of the altar, as described in Lev_1:5—not, however, on the horns of the altar of incense, or in the tabernacle, as in the case of the sin offering for the high priest and for the nation. (See Lev_4:7; Lev_4:16-18.)
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And purified the altar . . . and sanctified it.—Like the priest, the altar was consecrated to the service of God by the anointing oil (see Lev_8:11), and hence, like the priest, the altar is also purified by the expiatory sacrifice from its defilements.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 15-17. And Moses took the blood. Moses continues…
Vers. 15-17. And Moses took the blood. Moses continues still to act as priest, and the new sacrifice is once offered by him. He performs the priestly act of presenting the blood; but on this occasion, which is special, the blood is not dealt with in the manner prescribed for the high priest"s offerings. (Lev_4:6) The reason of this is that Aaron was not yet high priest, and also that the offering was made not only for Aaron, but also for his sons; and further, the blood as well as the anointing oil was required to purify the altar, and sanctify it. (see Heb_9:21) Although the blood was not "brought into the tabernacle," yet the bullock was burnt with fire without the camp, not eaten according to the rule of Lev_7:26, Lev_7:30. This was necessary, as there were as yet no priests to eat it.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain reconciliation Heb. "kaphar," to cover.
reconciliation Heb. "kaphar," to cover.
(See Scofield "Dan 9:24").
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 8:15 Normally, the high priest performed these priestly duties.…
8:15 Normally, the high priest performed these priestly duties. However, it would not be proper for the priests to ordain themselves, so Moses, acting as God’s representative, instituted the priesthood.
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