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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Leviticus 16:14

He shall sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat, to teach us that God is merciful to sinners only through and for the blood of Christ. Eastward, i.e. with his face eastward, or upon the eastern part of it, towards the people, who were in the court, which lay eastward from the holy of holies, which was the most western part of the tabernacle. This signified that the high priest in this act represented the people, and that God accepted it on their behalf. Before the mercy-seat; on the ground.

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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