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15 and Moses slaughtered it. Moses took some of the blood, and with his finger he put it on the four horns of the altar to purify it. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. Through this process, he made the altar holy by purifying it.[a] 16 Then Moses took all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat around them, and he burned it all on the altar. 17 He took the rest of the bull, including its hide, meat, and dung, and burned it on a fire outside the camp, just as the Lord had commanded him.

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  1. 8:15 Or by making atonement for it; or that offerings for purification might be made on it.

15 Moses slaughtered the bull and took some of the blood,(A) and with his finger he put it on all the horns of the altar(B) to purify the altar.(C) He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. So he consecrated it to make atonement for it.(D) 16 Moses also took all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it on the altar. 17 But the bull with its hide and its flesh and its intestines(E) he burned up outside the camp,(F) as the Lord commanded Moses.

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