Leviticus 1:5

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Contextual Overview

³If one's offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to offer an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the LORD. ⁴He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him. ⁵And he shall slaughter the bull before the LORD, and Aaron's sons the priests are to present the blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar that is at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.⁶Next, he is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces. ⁷The sons of Aaron the priest shall prepare a fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire. ⁸Then Aaron's sons the priests are to arrange the pieces, including the head and the fat, atop the burning wood on the altar. ⁹The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
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kill: Leviticus 1:11, Leviticus 3:2, Leviticus 3:8, Leviticus 3:13, Leviticus 16:15, 2 Chronicles 29:22-24, Micah 6:6

the priests: Leviticus 1:11, Leviticus 1:15, 2 Chronicles 35:11, Hebrews 10:11

sprinkle: Leviticus 1:11, Leviticus 3:2, Leviticus 3:8, Leviticus 3:13, Exodus 24:6-8, Exodus 29:16, Numbers 18:17, 2 Chronicles 35:11, Isaiah 52:15, Ezekiel 36:25, Hebrews 12:24, 1 Peter 1:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:11 - And Leviticus 4:24 - in the place Leviticus 5:9 - sprinkle Leviticus 6:25 - In the Leviticus 7:2 - in the place Leviticus 8:15 - he slew it Leviticus 9:8 - General Leviticus 14:13 - in the place Deuteronomy 12:27 - thy burnt 1 Chronicles 6:49 - Aaron 2 Chronicles 30:16 - the priests Ezekiel 43:18 - to offer

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-the second day.

Genesis 1:13
And there was evening, and there was morning-the third day.

Genesis 1:19
And there was evening, and there was morning-the fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
And there was evening, and there was morning-the fifth day.

Genesis 1:31
And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the sixth day.

Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease."

Psalms 19:2
Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

Psalms 74:16
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

Psalms 104:20
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Isaiah 45:7
I form light and create darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord,.... That is, the man that brings the burnt offering, for no other is yet spoken of; and according to the traditions of the elders h, killing of the sacrifice was right when done by strangers, by women, and by servants, and by unclean persons, even in the most holy things so be it that the unclean did not touch the flesh; and it is observed i, that the service of the priest begins in the next clause, killing being lawful by him that was not a priest, according to the Targum of Jonathan, the butcher; but Aben Ezra interprets it of the priests, and certain it is, that the burnt offerings of the fowls were killed by the priests, Leviticus 1:15 and the Septuagint version renders it, "and they shall kill": but be this as it will, the burnt offering was to be killed in the court before the Lord; and this was typical of the death of Christ, who, according to these types, as well as to other prophecies, was to die for the sins of men, and accordingly did; and if this was the proprietor and not the priest that killed the sacrifice, it may denote that the sins of God's people, for whom Christ's sacrifice was offered up, were the cause of his death:

and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood: in vessels or basins, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, into which they received it when slain:

and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; which was the altar of burnt offering, and not the altar of incense, as appears by the situation of it, see Exodus 40:5 and the blood was sprinkled all around the altar with two sprinklings: the rule in the Misnah is k; the slaying of the burnt offering is in the north, and the reception of its blood into the ministering vessels is in the north, and its blood ought to have two sprinklings, which answer to four; which Maimonides l explains thus; because it is said "round about", it must needs be that the sprinklings should comprehend the four sides of the altar; and this is done when the two sprinklings are upon the two horns, which are diametrically opposite; and this is what is meant, "which are four"; the sense is, that those two should include the four sides, and the two opposite horns were the northeast and the southwest, as he and other Jewish writers observe m, and which he expresses more clearly elsewhere n: when the priest took the blood in the basin, he sprinkled out of it in the basin, two sprinklings upon the two corners of the altar opposite from it; and he ordered it so to sprinkle the blood upon the horn, that the blood might surround the corners in the form of the Greek letter "gamma" o; so that the blood of the two sprinklings might be found upon the four sides of the altar; because it is said of the burnt offerings, and of the peace offerings "round about"; and this is the law for the trespass offering, and the rest of the blood was poured out at the bottom southward: now this was always done by a priest, for though the bullock might be killed by a stranger, as Gersom on the place observes, yet its blood must be sprinkled by a priest; and it is the note of Aben Ezra, that this might be done by many, and therefore it is said, the "priests, Aaron's sons", when the slaying of it was only by one. The "altar" on which the blood was sprinkled typified the divinity of Christ, which gave virtue to his blood, whereby it made atonement for sin; and in allusion to this rite Christ's blood is called "the blood of sprinkling", 1 Peter 1:2

Hebrews 12:24 which being sprinkled on the heart by the Spirit of God clears it from an evil conscience, and purges the conscience from dead works, and speaks peace and pardon there, Hebrews 10:22.

h Misn. Zebachim, c. 3. sect. 1. & Maimon. in ib. T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 27. 1. & Zebachim, fol. 32. 1. & Menachot, fol. 19. 1. i Bartenora in Misn. Zebachim, ib. k Misn. Zebachim, c. 5. sect. 4. l Perush in ib. m Jarchi, Bartenora, & Yom Tob, in ib. n Hilchot Korbanot, c. 5. sect. 6. o Vid. T. Bab. Zebachim, fol. 53. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he shall kill the bullock - Tradition states that before the laying on of the hand, the victim was bound by a cord to a ring on the north side of the altar; as the words of the prayer were ended, the throat was cut and the blood received into a bowl held by an assistant.

Sprinkle the blood - Rather, throw the blood, so as to make the liquid cover a considerable surface. (The Christian significance of this typical action is referred to in Hebrews 12:24; 1 Peter 1:2.)

By the door of the tabernacle - At the entrance of the tent.