Then the anointed priest is to take some of the bull's blood into the tent of meeting. The blood of the community sin offering bull is taken into the tent of meeting by the anointed priest — the same ritual as the high priest's personal sin offering in verse 5. The equivalence of the ritual for the individual high priest's sin and the community's sin communicates the equivalence of their contamination of the sacred space: both require blood taken into the tent of meeting, both require the sevenfold sprinkling before the veil, both require blood on the incense altar's horns. The priest's failure and the community's failure require the same intensive remedy.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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