Exodus 24:6

Half of the blood was thrown against the altar; the other half (v.8) was thrown over the people. Covenants were ratified in different ways: sometimes, for instance, the contracting parties were held to be bound by eating salt together (cf. Leviticus 2:13; Numbers 18:19; 2 Chronicles 13:5), sometimes by partaking together in a sacrificial meal (Genesis 31:54; cf. v.11 here), in Genesis 15; Jeremiah 34:18 f., by passing between the divided pieces of slaughtered animals; and especially by the use, still prevalent in many parts of the world, of blood, as by each of the parties tasting the other's blood, or smearing himself with it, or letting it be mingled with his own, &c., or by both jointly dipping their hands in the blood of a slaughtered animal, &c. (cf. Hdt. iii. 8, iv. 70, Aesch. Theb.43 48, Xen. Anab.ii. 2. 9: see very fully Trumbull, The Blood Covenant, 1885, pp. 4 65). So analogously here: Jehovah and the people are symbolically joined together by the sacrificial blood being thrown over the altar (representing Jehovah) and the people; and thus the -covenant," or agreement, between them is ratified (cf. Psalms 50:5).

basons Heb. "aggânôth, elsewhere only Isaiah 22:24; Song of Solomon 7:3. Not the technical priestly term (mizrâḳ) used in Exodus 27:3.

sprinkled tossed (or threw): see on Exodus 29:16. So v.8.

on or against, at least, if the later sense of the expression (see on Exodus 29:16) may be here presupposed.