And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood.
Parallel translations
- WEB Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.
- KJV Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
- BSB In the same way, he sprinkled with blood the tabernacle and all the vessels used in worship.
- NKJV Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.
- NLT And in the same way, he sprinkled blood on the Tabernacle and on everything used for worship.
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Quick answer
Moses also sprinkled the tabernacle and its vessels with blood. Both the people and the place of worship needed cleansing.
Overview
Beyond the people, the sanctuary and its instruments were consecrated with blood. This widens the principle that nearly everything connected with covenant worship required blood for purification. It anticipates the claim that even the 'heavenly things' would need a better cleansing through Christ.
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- Lev 8:19He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.
- Lev 8:15He 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.
- Exod 29:12You 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.
- Exod 29:36Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
- Lev 16:14–19He 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.
- Ezek 43:18–26He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it.
- Lev 9:18He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar,
- Lev 9:8–9So Aaron came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
- Exod 29:20Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
- 2 Chr 29:19–22Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign threw away when he was unfaithful, have we prepared and sanctified. Behold, they are before Yahweh’s altar.”
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