and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.
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and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.
And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.
And the priest shall dip his finger from the blood, and he shall sprinkle seven times to the face of Yahweh, toward the face of the curtain.
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and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.
and he is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.
and he is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.
And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.
and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah, before the veil.
and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, before the veil.
And the Priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seuen times before the Lord, euen before the vaile.
And shall dip his finger in it and sprinkle it seven times before the veil.
and the priest hath dipped his finger in the blood, and hath sprinkled seven times before Jehovah at the front of the vail,
and the priest has dipped his finger in the blood, and has sprinkled seven times before YHWH at the front of the veil,
and the priest will dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the curtain.
And the priest shall dip his finger from the blood, and he shall sprinkle seven times to the face of Yahweh, toward the face of the curtain.
and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah, before the veil;
The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, before the veil.
And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.
He shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord in front of the veil.
And put his finger in the blood, shaking drops of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil.
And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וְטָבַ֧ל to dip H2881 — appearing just 16 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְטָבַ֧ל to dip H2881 occurs in 16 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 32 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 21 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Leviticus 4:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 32 words vs World English Bible 20. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וְטָבַ֧ל הַכֹּהֵ֛ן אֶצְבָּע֖וֹ מִן הַדָּ֑ם וְהִזָּ֞ה שֶׁ֤בַע פְּעָמִים֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה אֵ֖ת פְּנֵ֥י הַפָּרֹֽכֶת
and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί βάπτω ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ δάκτυλος ἀπό ὁ αἷμα ὁ μόσχος καί ῥαίνω ἑπτάκις ἔναντι κύριος κατενώπιον ὁ καταπέτασμα ὁ ἅγιος
And the priest shall dip his finger into some of the blood of the calf, and shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.
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 →
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.
וְיִטְבּוֹל כַּהֲנָא אִצְבְּעֵהּ מִן דְמָא וְיַדִי שְׁבַע זִמְנִין קֳדָם יְיָ יָת קֳדָם פָּרֻכְתָּא
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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.
וְיִטְמוֹשׁ כַּהֲנָא אֶצְבָּעֵיהּ מִן אַדְמָא וְיַדֵי מִנֵיהּ שְׁבַע זִמְנִין קֳדָם יְיָ קֳדָם פַּרְגוֹדָא
And the priest shall dip his finger into the blood, and sprinkle some thereof seven times in the presence of the Lord before the veil;
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.
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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ṭâbal (“to dip”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 4:17 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
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.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.