University of Oxford Definition and Unity of the Sacrificial System consecration or purification of the temple or the altar

the blood of the victim is used to anoint the doors and walls. This rite endows them with consecration. 6 0 Now a rite of the same nature is to be found in the zebah shelamim of ordination; an exactly similar anointing with blood is performed upon Aaron and his solis. 51 These examples show the affinity that links practices which in their aim and results seem completely opposed. There is a continuity between the forms of sacrifice. They are both too diverse and yet too similar for it to be possible to divide them into over-specialized categories. They are all the same in essence