SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:19
Porque habiendo leído Moiss todos los mandamientos de la Ley a todo el pueblo, tomando la sangre de los becerros y de los machos cabríos con agua, y lana de grana, e hisopo, roci a todo el pueblo, y juntamente al mismo libro,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Hebrew 9:19
Verse 19. When Moses had spoken every precept] The place to which the apostle alludes is Exod. xxiv. 4-8, where the reader is requested to consult the notes. And sprinkled both the book] The sprinkling of the book is not mentioned in the place to which the apostle refers, (see above,) nor did it in fact take place. The words auto te to biblion, and the book itself, should be referred to labwn, having taken, and not to errantise, he sprinkled; the verse should therefore be read thus: For after every commandment of the law had been recited by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of the calves, and of the goats, with water and scarlet wool, and the book itself, and sprinkled all the people. The rite was performed thus: Having received the blood of the calves and goats into basins, and mingled it with water to prevent it from coagulating, he then took a bunch of hyssop, and having bound it together with thread made of scarlet wool, he dipped this in the basin, and sprinkled the blood and water upon the people who were nearest to him, and who might be considered on this occasion the representatives of all the rest; for it is impossible that he should have had blood enough to have sprinkled the whole of the congregation.
Some think that the blood was actually sprinkled upon the book itself, which contained the written covenant, to signify that the covenant itself was ratified by the blood.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. For when Moses had spoken every precept , etc..] Contained in the decalogue, in the book of the covenant, everyone of the precepts in ( Exodus 22:1-23:33) for this is to be understood of the written law, and not of the oral law the Jews talk of, which they say Moses first delivered by word of mouth to Aaron, then to his two sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, then to the seventy elders of Israel, and then to the whole congregation; so that Aaron heard it four times, his sons thrice, the seventy elders twice, and all Israel once f198 : but this is the written law which he spoke audibly, and in a known language, to all the people according to the law ; which God gave him on the Mount: this may instruct persons concerned in the public ministry, to speak out plainly and clearly the whole counsel of God, to all to whom they are sent, according to the word of God, which is the rule of faith and practice: he took the blood of calves, and of goats ; in the relation of this affair in ( Exodus 24:5) which is referred to, only mention is made of oxen, bullocks, or heifers, here called calves, which were sacrificed for peace offerings, and not of goats; though perhaps they may be intended by the burnt offerings there spoken of, since they were sometimes used for burnt offerings, ( Leviticus 1:10). The Syriac version only reads, he took the blood of an heifer; and the Arabic version, he took the blood of calves; but all the copies, and other versions, read both. With water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop; neither of these are mentioned in ( Exodus 24:1-18), but since sprinkling is there said to be used, and blood and water mixed together, and scarlet and hyssop were used in sprinkling, as in sprinkling the leper, and the unclean house, ( Leviticus 14:5-7,49-51) the apostle justly concludes the use of them here; the blood, with water, was typical of the blood and water which sprung from the side of Christ pierced on the cross, the one signifying justification by him, the other sanctification; the scarlet wool, which is originally white, but becomes scarlet by being dyed, may denote the native purity of Christ, and his bloody sufferings and death; the hyssop may signify his humility, and the purging virtue of his blood, and the sweet smelling savour of his person, righteousness, and sacrifice.
The apostle calls scarlet, scarlet wool; though whenever the word is used in the Jewish laws of the Old Testament, wool is not expressed, but it is always intended; for it is a rule with the Jews f199 , that the blue, which is spoken of in every place, is wool dyed of a sky colour; purple is wool dyed red, and scarlet is wool dyed in scarlet. And sprinkled both the book, and all the people . In ( Exodus 24:8) no mention is made of the sprinkling of the former, only of the latter, which the apostle either concludes from the sprinkling of the blood upon the altar, upon which the book might lie, or from tradition, or from divine revelation: some think it does not necessarily follow from the text, that the book was sprinkled; and repeating the word labwn , he took, read the words, and he took the book and sprinkled all the people; but this seems not natural, but forced; and besides, all the Oriental versions are express for the sprinkling of the book: the book of the law was sprinkled, not because of any impurity in it, but to show the imperfection of it, and its insufficiency to justify men; or rather the imperfection of man's obedience to it, and to point out what the law requires in case of disobedience, even the blood and life of men; and what it would be, was it not sprinkled with blood, or satisfied by the blood of Christ, namely, an accusing, cursing, and condemning law: the people, all of them, being sprinkled with the blood, were typical of God's peculiar people, even all the elect of God, being sprinkled with the blood of Christ, called the blood of sprinkling, by which they are redeemed, and which speaks peace and pardon to them. Some have thought only the seventy elders were sprinkled, as representing the whole congregation; and others, that the twelve pillars were only sprinkled, as representing the twelve tribes of Israel; but Moses and the apostle agree, that they were the people that were sprinkled.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-22 - The solemn transactions between God and man, are sometimes called covenant, here a testament, which is a willing deed of a person bestowing legacies on such persons as are described, and it only take effect upon his death. Thus Christ died, not only to obtain the blessings of salvation for us, but to give power to the disposal of them. All, by sin, were become guilty before God, had forfeited ever thing that is good; but God, willing to show the greatness of his mercy, proclaimed a covenant of grace. Nothing could be clean to sinner, not even his religious duties; except as his guilt was don away by the death of a sacrifice, of value sufficient for that end, an unless he continually depended upon it. May we ascribe all real goo works to the same all-procuring cause, and offer our spiritual sacrifices as sprinkled with Christ's blood, and so purified from their defilement.
Greek Textus Receptus
λαληθεισης 2980 5685 γαρ 1063 πασης 3956 εντολης 1785 κατα 2596 νομον 3551 υπο 5259 μωυσεως 3475 παντι 3956 τω 3588 λαω 2992 λαβων 2983 5631 το 3588 αιμα 129 των 3588 μοσχων 3448 και 2532 τραγων 5131 μετα 3326 υδατος 5204 και 2532 εριου 2053 κοκκινου 2847 και 2532 υσσωπου 5301 αυτο 846 τε 5037 το 3588 βιβλιον 975 και 2532 παντα 3956 τον 3588 λαον 2992 ερραντισεν 4472 5656
Vincent's NT Word Studies
19. The statement of verse 18 historically confirmed by the story of the establishment of the law-covenant, Exodus 24.
Of calves and goats (twn moscwn kai twn tragwn). Not mentioned in the O.T. account. The goat was always for a sin-offering, and the sacrifices on this occasion were oxen, and are described as burnt offerings and sacrifices of peace, Exod. xxiv. 5. In the original covenant with Abraham a she-goat and a heifer are specially mentioned, Gen. xv. 9.
Water, scarlet wool, hyssop - sprinkled the book (udatov, ejriou kokkinou, uJsswpou aujto te to biblion ejrantisen). None of these are mentioned in the O.T. account, which the writer appears to have filled up from the details of subsequent usage. Comp. the additions in vers. 5, 10. It will also be observed that the sacrifices on the occasion of establishing the law covenant were not made according to the Mosaic ritual. They were offered, not by the priests, but by the young men, Exod. xxiv. 5. For kokkinov scarlet, see on Matt. xxvii. 6. %Usswpov hyssop appears in Exod. xii. 22; Lev. xiv. 4, 6, 49; Num. xix. 6, 18; Psalm li. 9; John xix. 29. Mostly in connection with lustral ceremonies. The vexed question of the precise botanical character of the plant has never been decisively settled. 213
