He is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the Lord, in front of the curtain of the sanctuary. The sevenfold sprinkling before the veil — the curtain that separates the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place — is the most intensive blood application in the sin offering system. The finger dipped in blood and the sevenfold sprinkling communicate the thoroughness of the atonement: seven times, the number of completeness, before the veil that separates the holy from the most holy. Hebrews 10:22 says draw near to God with hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience — the sevenfold sprinkling of Leviticus 4:6 is the Old Testament image behind the New Testament's language of a sprinkled clean heart.

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