Leviticus Leviticus 4:1-35
The fourth offering is the first no worshiper may refuse: brought for sin done unwittingly, its blood carried for the first time into the tent and sprinkled before the veil, each case sealed with the refrain “and it shall be forgiven.”
Topical Multiple
The Hebrew Bible uses four distinct water verbs that are never substituted for one another, and the LXX translators preserved those distinctions in Greek. This study traces the purification vocabulary from Torah through Prophets to the New Covenant, letting the original-language evidence answer the contested questions about baptism's mode, meaning, and the relationship of water to Spirit.