Commentary for Yoma 109:18

יצא והניחו על כן הזהב שבהיכל תנן התם רבי יהודה אומר לא היו שופרות לקיני חובה מפני התערובות

Scripture therefore teaches: 'And he shall do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bullock'! It was not necessary to say 'with his blood', why then was it said? To intimate that all the 'doings' of them should be alike: just as seven sprinklings downward were made in the case of the bullock, so shall seven sprinklings downward be made in the case of the goat; and just as only one upward sprinkling was made with the he-goat, so only one sprinkling upward had to be made in the case of the bullock.

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