8And 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. …
And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
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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