Exodus 24:8

8 And Moses took the blood and sprinkled [it] on the people, and he said, "Look, the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all these words."

Exodus 24:8 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 24:8

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 too numerous to be all sprinkled with it; though the apostle so expresses it, a part being put for the whole, ( Hebrews 9:19 ) either this was sprinkled on the young men that offered the sacrifices in the name of all the people; or on the seventy elders, as the heads of them, so Aben Ezra; or upon the twelve pillars, which answered to the twelve tribes, and represented them as the altar did the Lord:

and said, behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made
with you concerning all these words;
being a ratification of the covenant on both sides, having been sprinkled both upon the altar, and upon the people. In allusion to which, the blood of Christ is sometimes called the blood of sprinkling, and which, sprinkled upon the mercy seat, calls for pardon for men; and sprinkled on their consciences, speaks peace and pardon to them, and cleanses from all sin; and sometimes the blood of the everlasting covenant, the covenant of grace made with him, by which it is ratified and confirmed; and our Lord may have regard to this rite and mode of expression in ( Matthew 26:28 ) .

Exodus 24:8 In-Context

6 And Moses took half of the blood, and he put [it] in bowls, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

7 And he took the scroll of the covenant and read [it] in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will do, and we will listen."

8 And Moses took the blood and sprinkled [it] on the people, and he said, "Look, the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all these words."

9 And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy from the elders of Israel went up.

10 And they saw the God of Israel, and [what was] under his feet [was] like sapphire tile work and like the very heavens for clearness.