Exodus 29:21

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

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וְהִזֵּיתָ֤

nâzâh

H5137

“and · to sprinkle”

Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 24× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1335 , 1336

to spurt, spatter, sprinkle - (Qal) to spurt, spatter - (Hiphil) to cause to spurt, sprinkle upon - to spring, leap - (Hiphil) to cause to leap, startle

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

26: words
15: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְהִזֵּיתָ֤ to sprinkle H5137 — appearing just 24 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

וְהִזֵּיתָ֤ to sprinkle H5137

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְהִזֵּיתָ֤ to sprinkle H5137 occurs in 22 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
13 nouns
1 pronoun
8 prepositions
1 particle

Verb forms

וְלָקַחְתָּ֞ Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְהִזֵּיתָ֤ Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
וְקָדַ֥שׁ Qal · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

עַֽל upon H5921 ×5
בְּגָדָ֔יו garment H899 ×4
בָּנָ֛יו son H1121 ×4
אִתּ֑וֹ with H854 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 56 words from the Hebrew and 68 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Exodus 29:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
Exodus 29:1 "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish,
Exodus 29:7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
Leviticus 8:30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
Exodus 30:25–31 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
Leviticus 14:15–18 The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.
Leviticus 14:29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Yahweh.
Psalms 133:2 It is like the precious oil on the head, That ran down on the beard, Even Aaron's beard; That came down on the edge of his robes;

Isaiah 11:2–5 The Spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
Isaiah 61:1–3 The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound;
John 17:19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
Hebrews 10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 29:21 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְלָקַחְתָּ֞ מִן הַדָּ֨ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַֽל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ֮ וּמִשֶּׁ֣מֶן הַמִּשְׁחָה֒ וְהִזֵּיתָ֤ עַֽל אַהֲרֹן֙ וְעַל בְּגָדָ֔יו וְעַל בָּנָ֛יו וְעַל בִּגְדֵ֥י בָנָ֖יו אִתּ֑וֹ וְקָדַ֥שׁ הוּא֙ וּבְגָדָ֔יו וּבָנָ֛יו וּבִגְדֵ֥י בָנָ֖יו אִתּֽוֹ

You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

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Greek LXX Exodus 29:21 Septuagint · lemma form

καί λαμβάνω ἀπό ὁ αἷμα ὁ ἀπό ὁ θυσιαστήριον καί ἀπό ὁ ἔλαιον ὁ χρίσις καί ῥαίνω ἐπί ααρων καί ἐπί ὁ στολή αὐτός καί ἐπί ὁ υἱός αὐτός καί ἐπί ὁ στολή ὁ υἱός αὐτός μετά αὐτός καί ἁγιάζω αὐτός καί ὁ στολή αὐτός καί ὁ υἱός αὐτός καί ὁ στολή ὁ υἱός αὐτός μετά αὐτός ὁ δέ αἷμα ὁ κριός προςχέω πρός ὁ θυσιαστήριον κύκλος

And you shall take of the blood from the altar, and of the anointing oil; and you shall sprinkle it upon Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons' garments with him; and he shall be sanctified and his apparel, and his sons and his sons' apparel with him: but the blood of the ram you shall pour round about upon the altar.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְתִסַב מִן דְמָא דִי עַל מַדְבְּחָא וּמִמִשְׁחָא דִרְבוּתָא וְתַדֵי עַל אַהֲרֹן וְעַל לְבוּשׁוֹהִי וְעַל בְּנוֹהִי וְעַל לְבוּשֵׁי בְנוֹהִי עִמֵהּ וְיִתְקַדַשׁ הוּא וּלְבוּשׁוֹהִי וּבְנוֹהִי וּלְבוּשֵׁי בְנוֹהִי עִמֵהּ:

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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְתִיסַב מִן אַדְמָא דְעַל מַדְבְּחָא וּמִמִּשְׁחָא דִרְבוּתָא וְתַדִי עַל אַהֲרן וְעַל לְבוּשׁוֹי וְעַל בְּנוֹי וְעַל לְבוּשֵׁי בְּנוֹי עִמֵּיהּ וְיִתְקַדֵּשׁ הוּא וּלְבוּשׁוֹהִי וּבְנוֹהִי וּלְבוּשֵׁי בְּנוֹהִי עִמֵּיהּ

And thou shalt take of the blood which is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and drop it upon Aharon, and upon his vestments, and on his sons, and on his sons' vestments with him.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 29:21 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 29:21 And thou shalt take of the blood that [is] upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle [it] upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

Ver. 21. Of the blood, and of the anointing oil.] Signifying Christ’s merit and Spirit.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Wherewith the Altar must be sprinkled.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(21) Take of the blood . . . and of the anointing oil.—The twofold sprinkling, with blood and with oil, denoted the necessity of a twofold holiness—that of justification by the atoning blood of Christ, and that of sanctification by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The anointing which is here spoken of seems to have been the only anointing received by the sons of Aaron. (See Lev_8:30.)

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar,.... Not that which was sprinkled upon it, which could not be gathered up in such quantities as to be sprinkled again; but which was in a basin on it, having been received into it when the ram was slain:

and of the anointing oil; hereafter to be made, and with which Aaron was anointed as soon as he had his garments on; and this is a different anointing from that that was poured on his head; this was sprinkled on his garments, as follows:

and sprinkle it upon Aaron; both the blood and the oil:

and upon his garments; the note of Aben Ezra is, under the garments of Aaron, and on his garments, as if they were sprinkled within and without:

and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him; at his first unction his sons do not seem to have been anointed at all, but now they and their garments are sprinkled both with blood and oil; denoting both the justification of the priests of the Lord by the blood of Christ, and the sanctification of them by the Spirit, and the need that both their persons and their actions stand in of cleansing by them both:

and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him: all should be holy in a ceremonial sense, and devoted to holy uses and services; see Psa 45:8.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

Thou shalt take of the blood and of the anointing oil. Apparently, this is the only unction that the ordinary priests were to receive. (Compare Lev_8:30) The mixture of the blood with the oil is unusual, and presents some difficulties; but perhaps it is best to view it as symbolising the intimate union which exists between justification and sanctification the atoning blood, and the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit. And sprinkle it. The verb is different from that used in ver. 16, and is rightly rendered, "sprinkle." He shall be hallowed and his garments. As the garments shared in the sprinkling, they shared also, so far as was possible, in the consecration. It was hence especially that they became "holy garments."

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Yahweh continues speaking to Moses.

Aaron will then be set apart for me

This can be stated in active form. AT: "By doing this, you will dedicate Aaron to me" (See: Active or Passive)

translationWords

blood

altar

anoint

oil

Aaron

set apart

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 26 words (15 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâzâh (“to sprinkle”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to sprinkle” (nâzâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
The word “to sprinkle” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Leviticus 4:6 shares the word «to sprinkle» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“upon” occurs 5× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «וְלָקַחְתָּ֞» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
“upon” occurs 5× in this single verse.
15 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 26 words in this verse.