Discovery BoxLeviticus 4:6 
Context4:6 The priest must dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle 1 some of it 2 seven times before the Lord toward 3 the front of the veil-canopy 4 of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 4:17
Context4:17 and that priest must dip his finger in the blood 5 and sprinkle 6 some of the blood seven times 7 before the Lord toward 8 the front of the veil-canopy. 9
Leviticus 16:12
Context16:12 and take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the Lord 10 and a full double handful of finely ground fragrant incense, 11 and bring them inside the veil-canopy. 12
Leviticus 21:23
Context21:23 but he must not go into the veil-canopy 13 or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus 14 he must not profane my holy places, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”
Leviticus 24:3
Context24:3 Outside the veil-canopy 15 of the congregation in the Meeting Tent Aaron 16 must arrange it from evening until morning before the Lord continually. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations. 17
1 tn The Hebrew verb וְהִזָּה (vÿhizzah, Hiphil of נָזָה, nazah) does indeed mean “sprinkle” or “splatter.” Contrast the different Hebrew verb meaning “splash” in Lev 1:5 (זָרָק, zaraq).
2 tn Heb “of the blood.” The relative pronoun (“it”) has been used in the translation here for stylistic reasons.
3 tn The particle here translated “toward” usually serves as a direct object indicator or a preposition meaning “with.” With the verb of motion it probably means “toward,” “in the direction of” (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:234; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 60); cf. NAB, CEV.
4 tn The Hebrew term פָּרֹכֶת (parokhet) is usually translated “veil” (e.g., ASV, NAB, NASB) or “curtain” (e.g., NIV, NRSV), but it seems to have stretched not only in front of but also over the top of the ark of the covenant which stood behind and under it inside the most holy place (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 3:687-89).
5 tn The words “in the blood” are not repeated in the Hebrew text at this point, but must be supplied in the English translation for clarity.
6 tn The Hebrew verb וְהִזָּה (vÿhizzah, Hiphil of נָזָה, nazah) does indeed mean “sprinkle” or “splatter.” Contrast the different Hebrew verb translated “splash” in Lev 1:5 (זָרָק, zaraq).
7 tc The MT reads literally, “and the priest shall dip his finger from the blood and sprinkle seven times.” This is awkward. Compare v. 6, which has literally, “and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle from the blood seven times.” The MT appears to be corrupt by haplography (i.e., assuming v. 6 to be the correct form, in v. 17 the scribe skipped from “his finger” to “from the blood,” thus missing “in the blood”) and metathesis (i.e., this also resulted in a text where “from the blood” stands before “sprinkle” rather than after it; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 47).
8 tn See the note on v. 6 above.
9 tn See the note on v. 6 above.
10 tn Heb “and he shall take the fullness of the censer, coals of fire, from on the altar from to the faces of the
11 tn Heb “and the fullness of the hollow of his two hands, finely ground fragrant incense.”
12 tn Heb “and he shall bring from house to the veil-canopy.”
13 sn See the note on Lev 16:2 for the rendering “veil-canopy.”
14 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
15 tn The Hebrew term פָּרֹכֶת (parokhet) is usually translated “veil” or “curtain,” but it seems to have stretched not only in front of but also over the top of the ark of the covenant which stood behind and under it inside the most holy place (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 3:687-89).
16 tc Several medieval Hebrew
17 tn Heb “for your generations.”
