Numbers 19:4

Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:

In Context

3Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:17and he is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.

Leviticus 16:19He is to sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.

Hebrews 12:24to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 19:2-11

The Ashes of Purification. ( b. c. 1471.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke: 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and… Read the whole commentary →

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