But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
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- WEB But the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin offering.
- KJV But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
- NKJV But the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its offal, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
- NASB But the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
- NLT Then take the rest of the bull, including its hide, meat, and dung, and burn it outside the camp as a sin offering.
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The bull's flesh, skin, and dung were burned outside the camp, for it was a sin offering. The sin offering was removed from God's presence as bearing defilement.
Overview
Burning the sin offering outside the camp showed that sin must be put away from the holy community. The animal bore the people's guilt and was disposed of apart from the dwelling of God. Hebrews 13:11-12 applies this to Christ, who 'suffered outside the gate' to sanctify his people by his own blood.
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- Lev 4:11–12But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
- Lev 4:21Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Exod 30:10Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.”
- 2 Chr 29:24And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.
- Heb 13:11–13Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
- Ezra 8:35Then the exiles who had returned from captivity sacrificed burnt offerings to the God of Israel: 12 bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs, and a sin offering of 12 male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.
- Lev 4:25Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
- Lev 16:3This is how Aaron is to enter the Holy Place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
- Lev 9:2He said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.
- Num 7:16one male goat for a sin offering;
- Lev 5:8He is to bring them to the priest, who shall first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the front of its neck without severing it;
- Lev 4:3If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.
- Lev 4:29He is to lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.
- Lev 6:25“Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is most holy.
- Lev 4:32If, however, he brings a lamb as a sin offering, he must bring an unblemished female.
- Lev 16:11When Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.
- Lev 5:6and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.
- Lev 8:17But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.
- Lev 16:27The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.
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