He is to sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering against the side of the altar; the rest of the blood must be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. The blood of the sin offering bird is sprinkled against the altar's side and drained at the base — the same blood application as the animal sin offerings. The small amount of blood from a bird is applied with the same intentionality and in the same locations as the blood from the much larger animals. The principle that the blood's application is what matters — not the quantity but the act — is demonstrated by the bird's sin offering: a small amount of blood, properly applied, achieves the same atonement as the blood of a bull.

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