Numbers 19:4
in Numbers 19Eleazar 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.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
KJV
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:
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This verse in Numbers 19
Commentary
6 notes on this verseBefore the tabernacle - Or, towards the tabernacle, standing at a good distance from it, even without the camp, yet turning and looking towards it. For here is no intimation that he went into the camp before this work was done, but rather the contrary is implied, ver.
This site's exposition
Give it to Eleazar the priest
on Numbers 19:3-4
The heifer goes to Eleazar the priest rather than Aaron, since Barnes explains that the work defiles the man who does it. She is slaughtered outside the camp, and Hebrews 13:12 takes it up: Jesus also suffered outside the city gate.
This site's exposition
sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting
Seven sprinklings of blood mark the most solemn sin offerings, before the veil at Leviticus 4:6 and before the mercy seat at Leviticus 16:14. John Wesley places Eleazar outside the camp for this, turned toward the tent at a distance. Verse 9 names the rite a purification from sin.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
This made it in some sort an expiation; for the sprinkling of the blood before the Lord was the chief solemnity in all the sacrifices of atonement; therefore, though this was not done at the altar, yet, being done towards the sanctuary, it was intimated that the virtue and validity of it depended upon the sanctuary, and were derived from it.
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
By this attitude he indicated that he was presenting an expiatory sacrifice, for the acceptance of which he hoped, in the grace of God, by looking to the mercy seat. Every part of it was consumed by fire except the blood used in sprinkling, and the ingredients mixed with the ashes were the same as those employed in the sprinkling of lepers (Le 14:4-7).
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְלָקַ֞ח | velakach | and he will take | H3947 → | 966 times |
| אֶלְעָזָ֧ר | ʾelazar | Eleazar | H499 → | 72 times |
| הַכֹּהֵ֛ן | hakohen | the priest | H3548 → | 750 times |
| מִדָּמָ֖הּ | midamah | some of blood its | H1818 → | 360 times |
| בְּאֶצְבָּע֑וֹ | beetzbao | with finger his | H676 → | |
| וְהִזָּ֞ה | vehizah | and he will spatter | H5137 → | 24 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| נֹ֨כַח | nokhach | before | H5227 → | |
| פְּנֵ֧י | penei | [the] face of | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| אֹֽהֶל־ | ʾohel- | [the] tent of | H168 → | 345 times |
| מוֹעֵ֛ד | moed | meeting | H4150 → | 223 times |
| מִדָּמָ֖הּ | midamah | some of blood its | H1818 → | 360 times |
| שֶׁ֥בַע | sheva' | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| פְּעָמִֽים׃ | peamim | times | H6471 → | 118 times |
וְלָקַ֞חand he will take
velakachH3947 →966 times
אֶלְעָזָ֧רEleazar
ʾelazarH499 →72 times
הַכֹּהֵ֛ןthe priest
hakohenH3548 →750 times
מִדָּמָ֖הּsome of blood its
midamahH1818 →360 times
בְּאֶצְבָּע֑וֹwith finger his
beetzbaoH676 →
וְהִזָּ֞הand he will spatter
vehizahH5137 →24 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
נֹ֨כַחbefore
nokhachH5227 →
פְּנֵ֧י[the] face of
peneiH6440 →2123 times
אֹֽהֶל־[the] tent of
ʾohel-H168 →345 times
מוֹעֵ֛דmeeting
moedH4150 →223 times
מִדָּמָ֖הּsome of blood its
midamahH1818 →360 times
שֶׁ֥בַעseven
sheva'H7651 →394 times
פְּעָמִֽים׃times
peamimH6471 →118 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Leviticus 16:14And he is to take some of the bull’s blood and sprinkle it with his finger on the east side of the mercy seat; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger…
it leads to
- Hebrews 9:25
Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
- Leviticus 4:5–6
Then the anointed priest shall take some of the bull’s blood and bring it into the Tent of Meeting.
- 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,
- Leviticus 4:17
and he is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.
- Leviticus 8:11
He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.
- Hebrews 9:25
Through
Leviticus 4:6The 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.
it leads to
- Leviticus 14:18
The rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
- Leviticus 16:14
And he is to take some of the bull’s blood and sprinkle it with his finger on the east side of the mercy seat; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger…
- Leviticus 14:18
Through
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.
it leads to
- Zechariah 13:1
“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
- Zechariah 13:1
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.