Leviticus 4:16

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Leviticus 4:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 when they become aware of the sin they have committed, then the assembly must bring a young bull as a sin offering and present it before the Tent of Meeting.

15 The elders of the congregation are to lay their hands on the bull’s head before the LORD, and it shall be slaughtered before the LORD.

16 Then the anointed priest is to bring some of the bull’s blood into the Tent of Meeting,

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

18 He is also to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting, and he must pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

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Leviticus 4:5

Then the anointed priest shall take some of the bull’s blood and bring it into the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4:6

The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 4:7

The priest must then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. And he is to pour out the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4:8

Then he shall remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering—the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them,

Leviticus 4:9

both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys—

Leviticus 4:10

just as the fat is removed from the ox of the peace offering. Then the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.

Leviticus 4:11

But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—

Leviticus 4:12

all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the ash heap.

Hebrews 9:12

He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

Hebrews 9:13

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!