Leviticus 8:15
And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
Cross-references
Leviticus 4:30 describes the same blood-on-horns and base action for a common person's sin offering – identical ritual.
Leviticus 4:25 prescribes the same blood-on-horns and pouring at base for a ruler's sin offering, mirroring this consecration.
Leviticus 9:9 records Aaron repeating the same blood application on altar horns during his first sin offering.
Leviticus 17:11 explains the atonement principle that blood makes reconciliation, which this ritual enacts.
Leviticus 4:6 also involves finger-dipping in blood, but for sprinkling before the veil rather than on altar horns.
In Leviticus 6:30, the rule that sin offerings with blood taken inside must be burned applies to the consecration offering here—both involve blood applied for atonement.
Leviticus 16:16 describes annual atonement for the sanctuary, paralleling the purification of the altar at consecration here.
In Leviticus 16:20, the Day of Atonement purifies the altar with blood—the same action as here but for annual atonement.
Exodus 29:11 commands killing the bull at the tent of meeting, fulfilled here in the ordination ritual.
Hebrews 9:18-23 uses this blood consecration as a type for Christ's blood purifying the heavenly sanctuary.
Hebrews 2:17 shows Christ as high priest making propitiation, which the altar purification here typologically foreshadows.
In 2 Corinthians 5:18-21, Christ made sin for us reconciles us to God—the reality prefigured by this blood atonement for the altar.
In Romans 5:10, reconciliation through Christ's death fulfills the atonement pictured by this sin offering blood on the altar.
In 2 Chronicles 29:24, Hezekiah's priests sprinkle sin offering blood on the altar to atone for Israel, directly reflecting this consecration ritual.
Exodus 29:37 declares the altar most holy after consecration – the result of the blood ritual begun here.
Exodus 29:36 commands a daily sin offering for seven days to atone for the altar – this is the first day's fulfillment.
Exodus 29:12 instructs putting blood on the altar's horns and base, which this verse executes.
Exodus 29:10 commands the same laying of hands on the bull for the priests' ordination, which is being carried out in this verse.
Ezekiel 43:20 prescribes a similar altar purification with blood on horns in the vision of the future temple.
Hebrews 9:21 references the sprinkling of blood on the tabernacle vessels, including this altar, as a type of Christ's sacrifice.
2 Chronicles 29:22 recounts Hezekiah's priests sprinkling blood on the altar during temple restoration, echoing this ritual.
Ezekiel 43:20 repeats the blood-on-horns ritual for the future temple – a later echo of this consecration pattern.
In Ezekiel 45:20, atonement is made for the temple by blood on the 7th day, a later instance of purifying the sanctuary like here.