“And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.”
He is to take some of the bull's blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover. The blood of Aaron's personal sin offering bull is sprinkled on the front of the mercy seat and seven times before it — the most intensive blood application in the entire Levitical system. The blood that covers the mercy seat is the blood that atones for Aaron's personal sin and the sins of his household. The sevenfold sprinkling before the mercy seat communicates the complete, thorough character of the atonement applied at the very center of the divine presence.
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