Leviticus 5:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And he shall sprinkle. — Here again there is a striking difference between the ritual in the sacrifice before us and that in the case of the regular sin offering described in the previous Chapter s. The blood is simply to be thrown on the walls of the altar, whilst in the ordinary sin offering, the priest had not only to dip his finger seven times in the blood of the victim, but had to put it on the horns of the altar (Leviticus 4:6-7; Leviticus 4:17-18; Leviticus 4:25; Leviticus 4:30; Leviticus 4:34).

Leviticus 5:9

9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.