“And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.”
You are to lay your hand on its head and slaughter it in front of the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons shall splash its blood against the sides of the altar. The hand-laying, slaughter, and blood-splash for the goat repeat the established pattern for the third time within the fellowship offering regulations. The triple repetition across cattle, lamb, and goat is not literary redundancy but legal thoroughness: each animal's regulation is stated completely so that there is no ambiguity about what is required for each species. The thoroughness mirrors the thoroughness of the covenant itself — every situation addressed, every species specified.
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