Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.
Parallel translations
- WEB Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.
- BSB Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in a holy place.
- NKJV Everyone who touches its flesh must be holy. And when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled, in a holy place.
- NASB Whoever touches its flesh will become consecrated; and when any of its blood spatters on a garment, you shall wash what spattered on it in a holy place.
- NLT Anyone or anything that touches the sacrificial meat will become holy. If any of the sacrificial blood spatters on a person’s clothing, the soiled garment must be washed in a sacred place.
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Quick answer
Whatever touches its flesh becomes holy, and blood-spattered garments must be washed in a holy place. The sin offering carries intense sanctity that must be respected.
Overview
Contact with the most holy flesh imparts holiness, and any blood on garments must be washed within the sanctuary. These rules guard the boundary between sacred and common with great care. The reverence surrounding the sin offering's blood points to the infinitely precious blood of Christ, which truly cleanses and sanctifies.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Exod 29:37Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
- 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- Lev 11:32And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
- Hag 2:12If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
- Exod 30:29And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
- Matt 9:21For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
- Lev 6:18All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
- 2 Cor 7:11For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
- Matt 14:36And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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