Exodus 29:12
Good News Translation
Take some of the bull's blood and with your finger put it on the projections of the altar. Then pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

New Revised Standard Version
and shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and all the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.

Contemporary English Version
Use a finger to smear some of its blood on each of the four corners of the altar and pour out the rest of the blood on the ground next to the altar.

New American Bible
Take some of its blood and with your finger put it on the horns of the altar. All the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And taking some of the blood of the calf, thou shalt put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and the rest of the blood thou shalt pour at the bottom thereof.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And taking some of the blood of the calf, thou shalt put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and the rest of the blood thou shalt pour at the bottom thereof.

the blood

Leviticus 8:15 He immolated it: and took the blood, and dipping his finger in it, he touched the horns of the altar round about. Which being expiated, and sanctified, he poured the rest of the blood at the bottom thereof.

Leviticus 9:9 And his sons brought him the blood of it: and he dipped his finger therein, and touched the horns of the altar, and poured the rest at the foot thereof.

Leviticus 16:14,18,19 He shall take also of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger seven times towards the propitiatory to the east. . . .

Hebrews 9:13,14,22 For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: . . .

Hebrews 10:4 For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.

the horns

Exodus 27:2 And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.

Exodus 30:2 It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, four square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.

Exodus 38:2 The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he overlaid it with plates of brass.

pour all

Leviticus 4:7,18,25,30,34 And he shall put some of the same blood upon the horns of the altar of the sweet incense most acceptable to the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the testimony. And he shall pour all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar of holocaust in the entry of the tabernacle. . . .

Leviticus 5:9 And of its blood he shall sprinkle the side of the altar: and whatever is left, he shall let it drop at the bottom thereof, because it is for sin.

Leviticus 9:9 And his sons brought him the blood of it: and he dipped his finger therein, and touched the horns of the altar, and poured the rest at the foot thereof.

Context
The Order of the Sacrifices
11And thou shalt kill him in the sight of the Lord, beside the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. 12And taking some of the blood of the calf, thou shalt put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and the rest of the blood thou shalt pour at the bottom thereof.13Thou shalt take also all the fat that covereth the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and shalt offer a burn offering upon the altar:…
Cross References
Revelation 6:9
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.

Exodus 27:2
And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.

Exodus 29:11
And thou shalt kill him in the sight of the Lord, beside the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

Exodus 30:2
It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, four square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.

Leviticus 8:15
He immolated it: and took the blood, and dipping his finger in it, he touched the horns of the altar round about. Which being expiated, and sanctified, he poured the rest of the blood at the bottom thereof.

Exodus 29:11
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