6And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.
And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The first two verses record the appointment of a second session upon mount Sinai, for the making of laws, when an end was put to the first. When a communion is begun between God and us, it shall never fail on his side, if it do not first fail on ours. Moses is directed to bring Aaron and his sons, and the seventy elders of Israel, that they might be witnesses of the glory of God, and that communio…
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