OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 16:18

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“He shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.

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Verse 18. Let him pray for himself. Hebrew “he shall expiate or purify it,” the altar of incense. Josephus says he also sprinkled with blood the great altar of holocausts, verse 20. Ant. iii. 10.

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