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Leviticus 4:30 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 30. 30And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
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Role in This Section
This verse places blood on the outer altar horns and pours the remainder at its base.
Read It With
- Leviticus 4:27-35
Start with 4:27-35 rather than Leviticus 4:30 alone. In that complete movement, this verse places blood on the outer altar horns and pours the remainder at its base. The unit's controlling claim is: A member of the people who learns of an inadvertent breach may bring a female goat or lamb; hand placement, slaughter, blood, fat, atonement, and forgiveness follow.
Why It Needs Context
This verse places blood on the outer altar horns and pours the remainder at its base. Its force depends on Leviticus 4:27-35, where the complete ritual, legal, narrative, or calendar movement supplies the teachable claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 4:27-35 — An ordinary person may bring a female goat or lambSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 4:27-35, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 4:27-35
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