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Exodus 29:11

in Exodus 29

And you shall slaughter the bull before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thou shalt kill the bullock before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting.

KJV

And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

This verse in Exodus 29

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

You are to present the bull at the front of the Tent of Meeting

on Exodus 29:10-11

This is the first place in Scripture where hands are laid on the head of a sacrifice, and it happens three times in this chapter. The men who will serve at the altar begin by laying hands on the animal killed that hour.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The law made those priests that had infirmity, and therefore they must first offer for their own sin, before they could make atonement for the people, Heb. vii. They were to put their hand on the head of their sacrifice (

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

HE SHALL POUR OUT. 62 Yishpokh. In our text of the Pentateuch the reading is: Thou shalt pour out ( tishpokh ).
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 29:12:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְשָׁחַטְתָּ֥and you will slaughter

    veshachataH7819 →81 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַפָּ֖רthe young bull

    haparH6499 →132 times

  • לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • פֶּ֖תַח[the] entrance of

    petachH6607 →164 times

  • אֹ֥הֶל[the] tent of

    ʾohelH168 →345 times

  • מוֹעֵֽד׃meeting

    moedH4150 →223 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 29:4

    Then present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 40:12

      Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

    • Hebrews 10:22

      let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

    • Leviticus 8:3–6

      and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”

    • John 13:8–10

      “Never shall You wash my feet!” Peter told Him. Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.”

    • Titus 3:5

      He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

  • Through

    Leviticus 8:15

    Moses slaughtered the bull, took some of the blood, and applied it with his finger to all four horns of the altar, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at…

    it leads to

    • 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…

    • Ephesians 2:16

      and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

  • Through

    Leviticus 9:12

    Then Aaron slaughtered the burnt offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.

    it leads to

    • Ephesians 5:2

      and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.

This page draws on John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.