Exodus 29:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6), calling our attention to the several parts touched by the atoning blood. All were consecrated, and each one is singled out and emphasised by the several "and".

Aaron. The Antitype, Christ, so anointed and set apart "on the holy mount" (2 Peter 1:16-18). See notes on Exodus 28:1; Exodus 28:2. Compare Psalms 45:7; Hebrews 1:9. Note "thy fellows", but "above" them, infinitely "above".

Exodus 29:20

20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.