Mesorat%20hashas for Keritot 8:63

אחת לדם חולין ואחת לדם קדשים ואחת לדם התמצית

I might have thought that only the blood of consecrated animals, and that only with which life departs, was meant, because this blood brings about atonement;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This gushing blood alone may be used for sprinkling, cf. Pes. 65a. This restriction of the law to blood suitable for atonement might have found a support in the following passage: And I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement far your souls (ibid. 11) .');">³⁶</span>

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