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The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:
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Commentators explain that Aaron followed the procedure from his consecration ceremony, not the standard law for a high priest's sin offering. This was because he was not yet formally qualified to enter the Holy Place. This detail underscores that access to God's presence is a sacred privilege, granted through specific, divinely-ordered steps.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Aaron did not act according to the ordinary Law (Leviticus 4:5–7, Leviticus 4:16–18), but as Moses had done in the sin-offer…
19th Century
Anglican
And the sons of Aaron brought the blood. —His sons, for whom the sacrifice was offered as well as for himself, and who as…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him The blood of the calf of the sin offering, which they had received in a …
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