Received the blood. — Caught it in bowls of sprinkling (Numbers 8:14).
And sprinkled it on the altar. — Threw it against (literally, towards) the altar (Leviticus 8:19; Leviticus 8:24).
Likewise, when. — And they slaughtered the rams... and they slaughtered the lambs. The three clauses of the verse are symmetrical. The repetition is a mark of the writer’s anxiety to show how carefully the legitimate ritual was observed in each instance.
Killed. — Slaughtered (shahat; σφάζω, Genesis 37:31). Specially used of slaying sacrificial victims (Leviticus 1:5).