Then the anointed priest shall take some of the bull's blood and carry it into the tent of meeting. The anointed priest takes the blood of his own sin offering into the tent of meeting — into the Holy Place — for application there. The sin offering for the high priest is the only sin offering whose blood enters the sanctuary itself. The elevation of the ritual matches the elevation of the office: the high priest's sin requires blood taken into the place where the high priest ministers, because his sin has potentially contaminated the sacred space of his service. Hebrews 9:12 says Christ entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood — the high priest's annual entry with blood is the type of Christ's definitive entry.

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