Verse 27
27. Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof Of this “most holy” sacrifice. No one but a consecrated person was knowingly allowed “to touch” or handle the offering.
Shall be holy Be deemed devoted to God’s service.
When there is sprinkled upon any garment Not intentionally, but accidentally, in the slaying of the sacrifice or otherwise. So sacred was the blood of the sin offering that not a drop was to be treated as common.
Thou shalt wash… in the holy place So that nothing connected with, or any wise belonging to, this holy service should be contaminated by contact with unsanctified persons or things. “As the sin offering in special sort figured Christ, who was made sin for us, (2 Corinthians 5:21,) so this ordinance taught a holy use of the mystery of our redemption.” The sacredness which was deemed to appertain to “the blood” of this most holy offering is strikingly typical of that most “precious blood” of our great sacrificial Victim of which Peter speaks in his epistle. 1 Peter 1:18-19.
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