Levitico 8:15

15 Mosè lo scannò, ne prese del sangue, lo mise col dito sui corni dell’altare tutto all’intorno, e purificò l’altare; poi sparse il resto del sangue appiè dell’altare, e lo consacrò per farvi su l’espiazione.

Levitico 8:15 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 8:15

And he slew it
Not Aaron, nor any of his sons, who as yet were not fully consecrated and installed into their office, but Moses, as follows:

and Moses took the blood;
which was received into a basin when the bullock was slain:

and put [it] upon the horns of the altar round about with his
finger;
upon the four horns of the altar, which were at the four corners of it, and dipping his finger into the blood, he besmeared the horns with it, and drew it about with his finger here and there; and so is said to be done round about the altar, as these horns were:

and purified the altar;
or cleansed it; not from moral guilt and pollution, which it was incapable of, but from all ceremonial pollution it might be supposed to have:

and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar;
the rest of the blood he did not use about the horns:

and sanctified it;
separated it from common to sacred use:

to make reconciliation upon it;
that it might be fit to have sacrifices offered on it to make atonement and reconciliation for sins; for which reason it was necessary it should itself be pure and holy, in such sense it was capable of being so.

Levitico 8:15 In-Context

13 Poi Mosè fece accostare i figliuoli d’Aaronne, li vestì di tuniche, li cinse di cinture, e assicurò sul loro capo delle tiare, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

14 Fece quindi accostare il giovenco del sacrifizio per il peccato, e Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli posarono le loro mani sulla testa del giovenco del sacrifizio per il peccato.

15 Mosè lo scannò, ne prese del sangue, lo mise col dito sui corni dell’altare tutto all’intorno, e purificò l’altare; poi sparse il resto del sangue appiè dell’altare, e lo consacrò per farvi su l’espiazione.

16 Poi prese tutto il grasso ch’era sulle interiora, la rete del fegato, i due arnioni col loro grasso, e Mosè fece fumar tutto sull’altare.

17 Ma il giovenco, la sua pelle, la sua carne e i suoi escrementi, li bruciò col fuoco fuori del campo, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.