and of goats This is not specially mentioned, but it may be supposed that "goats" were among the burnt-offerings mentioned in Exodus 24:5.

water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop These again are not mentioned in Exodus 24:6, but are perhaps added from tradition on the analogy of Exodus 12:22; Numbers 19:6; and Leviticus 14:4-6.

hyssop the dry stalks of a plant resembling marjoram.

both the book See Exodus 24:6-8, where however it is not specially mentioned that the Book was sprinkled. The Jewish tradition was that it lay upon the altar (see Exodus 24:7). The "book" seems to have been the written record of what was uttered to Moses in Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33. This is one of several instances in which the writer shews himself learned in the Jewish legends (Hagadoth).

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