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.
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Gill's Exposition
And Moses took the blood,.... The other half of the blood which was in the basins:
and sprinkled it on the people; not on the whole body of the people, who could not be brought nigh enough, and were…
Barnes' Notes
The blood which sealed the covenant was the blood of burnt offerings and peace offerings. The sin-offering Lev. 4 had not yet been instituted. That more complicated view of human nature which gave to…
The first two verses record the appointment of a second session upon mount Sinai, for the making of laws, when an end was put to the first. When a communion is begun between God and us, it shall never…
Cambridge Bible
the blood of the covenant the blood by which the covenant is ratified. Cf. Heb 9:20; Heb 12:24 (noting vv.18 21); 1Pe 1:2, with Hort's note (p. 23 f.); and the -blood of the" new -covenant," founded…
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