“And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:”
The priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the person being cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot. The blood of the restoration guilt offering is applied to the restored person's right earlobe, right thumb, and right big toe — the same three locations marked with blood at the priestly ordination of Leviticus 8:23–24. The person being restored from the defiling skin disease receives the same blood-marking as the newly ordained priest: the restoration ceremony marks the person as fully re-consecrated to covenant life. The ear that hears, the hand that serves, and the foot that walks in the covenant — all three are blood-marked at restoration.
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