16:18 “Then 3 he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He is to take 4 some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it all around on the horns of the altar. 16:19 Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it 5 from the impurities of the Israelites.
1 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.
2 tn Heb “to all their sins.”
3 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) indicates the sequence of events here.
4 tn Heb “And he shall take.”
5 tn Heb “and he shall purify it and he shall consecrate it.”