He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times. “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat.
⛓ Read Leviticus 16 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
‘Not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people’ (v. 7) compresses the bull-for-himself / goat-for-the-people sequence of Lev 16:14–15. Recurrence within Hebrews (the same blood-rite returns at 9:25) and thematic coherence support the link, though no clause is quoted verbatim.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
‘With blood not his own’ (v. 25) points to the bull-and-goat blood the high priest carries within the veil in Lev 16:14–15 — ‘blood not his own’ in contrast to Christ's self-offering. An echo (the rite is presupposed, not quoted); recurrence of the same Lev 16 blood-entry across 9:7, 9:12, and here.
Medium confidence