Levítico 5:9

9 y rociará de la sangre del pecado sobre la pared del altar; y lo que sobrare de la sangre lo exprimirá al cimiento del altar; es pecado

Levítico 5:9 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 5:9

And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin [offering]
upon the side of the altar
Or "wall" ^F3 it is asked ^F4,

``what is the wall at which the rest of the blood is wrung out? this is the lower wall, namely, the half of the height of the altar below, under the thread (of scarlet that goes round the middle of the altar) that the rest of the blood may be squeezed at the bottom of the altar, and because of this the sin offering of the fowl is below,''

that is, the sprinkling of its blood. And so Ben Gersom observes; from hence we learn, says he, that the sprinkling of the sin offering of the fowl was in the lower part of the altar; and I think this sprinkling, adds he, was not in the length, but in the breadth:

and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the
altar;
the blood sprinkled was that which dropped from it when nipped by the priest; this here was squeezed out by him, and was shed at the foot of the altar; so that the altar had all the blood, and nothing but the blood of the fowl, all the rest belonged to the priest {e}: this might be an emblem both of the drops of blood which fell from Christ in the garden, and of the shedding of his blood upon the cross, whereby remission of sin was obtained, and atonement made:

it [is] a sin [offering];
an offering whereby sin was typically expiated and stoned.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (ryq le) (epi ton toicon) , Sept. "super parietem", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius; "ad parietem", Tigurine version.
F4 Maimon. in Misn. Zebachim, c. 6. sect. 4.
F5 Misn. ib.

Levítico 5:9 In-Context

7 Y si no le alcanzare para un cordero, traerá por la culpa de su pecado, dos tórtolas o dos palominos al SEÑOR; el uno por su pecado, y el otro para holocausto

8 Y los traerá al sacerdote, el cual ofrecerá primero el que es como el pecado, y desunirá su cabeza de su cuello, mas no la apartará del todo

9 y rociará de la sangre del pecado sobre la pared del altar; y lo que sobrare de la sangre lo exprimirá al cimiento del altar; es pecado

10 Y del otro hará holocausto conforme a la ordenanza; y así lo reconciliará el sacerdote de su pecado en que pecó, y tendrá perdón

11 Mas si su posibilidad no alcanzare para dos tórtolas, o dos palominos, el que pecó traerá por su ofrenda la décima parte de un efa de flor de harina por su pecado. No pondrá sobre ella aceite, ni sobre ella pondrá incienso, porque es pecado