Exodus 24:6 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 24:6

And 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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ASV

And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

WEB

Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.

YLT

And Moses taketh half of the blood, and putteth in basins, and half of the blood hath he sprinkled on the altar;

DBT

And Moses took half the blood, and put [it] in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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The CovenantsMosaic — ratification with blood.

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Exodus 24:8
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.
1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Jeremiah 31:32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
Hebrews 9:18
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
2 Kings 17:15
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

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), which signifies the people's dedicating themselves, their lives, and beings, to God, and to his honour. In the blood (which is the life) of the dead sacrifices all the Israelites were presented unto God as living sacrifices, Rom. xii. 1 . [2.] The blood of the sacrifice which God had owned and accepted was (the remainder of it) sprinkled either upon the people themselves (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Moses took half of the blood . . . sprinkled--Preliminary to this was the public reading of the law and the renewed acceptance of the terms by the people; then the sprinkling of the blood was the sign of solemn ratification--half on each party in the transaction.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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