Bilangan 19:4-5

19:4 Eleazar the priest is to take ¹  some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times ²  directly in front of the tent of meeting. 19:5 Then the heifer must be burned ³  in his sight – its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned. ⁴ 

[19:4]  ¹ tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; it functions here as the equivalent of the imperfect of instruction.

[19:4]  ² sn Seven is a number with religious significance; it is often required in sacrificial ritual for atonement or for purification.

[19:5]  ³ tn Again, the verb has no expressed subject, and so is given a passive translation.

[19:5]  ⁴ tn The imperfect tense is third masculine singular, and so again the verb is to be made passive.