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When every commandment had been spoken (lalētheisēs). Genitive absolute with first aorist passive participle feminine singular of laleō. The author uses the account in Exo 24:3. “with characteristic freedom” (Moffatt). There is nothing there about the water, the scarlet wool (erion, diminutive of eros, eiros, old word, here and in Rev 1:14; for kokkinos see Mat 27:6, and note on Mat 27:28), and hyssop (hussōpou, a plant mentioned in Joh 19:29). It had become the custom to mingle water with the blood and to use a wisp of wool or a stem of hyssop for sprinkling (Num 10:2-10).
Both the book itself (auto te to biblion). There is nothing in Exodus about sprinkling the book of the covenant, though it may very well have been done. He omits the use of oil in Exo 40:9.; Lev 8:10. and applies blood to all the details.
Sprinkled (erantisen). First aorist active indicative from rantizō (from rantos and this from rainō), like baptizō from baptō. Cf. Mar 7:4; Heb 10:22; Rev 19:13.