Exodus 29:16

sprinkle toss: viz. in a volume, out of a tossing-vesselor basin(see on Exodus 27:3). -Sprinkle" not only conveys an incorrect idea of the action meant, but also confuses it with an entirely different action, correctly represented by -sprinkle" (Leviticus 4:6; Leviticus 4:17; Leviticus 5:9 &c.): it is to be regretted that the distinction, obliterated in AV., but correctly pointed out in the Speaker's Commentary(1. ii. 499 b) in 1871, should not have been preserved in RV. The reader who desires to understand correctly the sacrificial ritual of the Hebrew should correct on the margin of his copy of the RV. toss or throw for -sprinkle" (with against for -upon," where altarfollows: see the next note) here, v.20, Exodus 24:6; Leviticus 1:5; Leviticus 1:11; Leviticus 3:2; Leviticus 3:8; Leviticus 3:13; Leviticus 7:2; Leviticus 7:14; Leviticus 8:19; Leviticus 8:24; Leviticus 9:12; Leviticus 9:18; Leviticus 17:6; Numbers 18:17; Numbers 19:13; Numbers 19:20 (but vv.4, 18, 19, 21 -sprinkle" is correct), 2 Kings 16:13; 2 Kings 16:15; Ezekiel 43:18; 2 Chronicles 29:22; 2Ch 30:16; 2 Chronicles 35:11; also Ezekiel 36:25 and Exodus 9:8; Exodus 9:10.

upon against. As the Jews expressly state, the blood was thrown not uponthe altar, but against the sidesof it, and in such a manner that with two movements of the -tossing-vessel" the blood was thrown against its four sides (Zebâḥimv. 4 ff.; Rashi on Leviticus 1:5). So Leviticus 1:5; Leviticus 1:11, &c.