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They killed the Passover lambs, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from their hands, and the Levites skinned them.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Blood is expressed in the Septuagint and understood in Hebrew Bible.—With. Hebrew and Septuagint “from their hands;” ( Bible.) receiving it from the officers, who might slay their own victims, ( Calmet.) unless they were unclean, ( Calmet.) 30:17. Bible.—Holocausts. Hebrew and Septuagint speak of the paschal lambs. Bible.—Holocausts were regularly to be flayed by priests. Leviticus 1:6. The hurry of the solemnity, ( Calmet.) and necessity, here excused the Levites, ( Menochius.) if we understand proper holocausts. Bible.
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