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.
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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.
- BSB But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside 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.
- 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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Quick answer
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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Cross-references · 19
- Lev 4:11–12The bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung,
- Lev 4:21He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Exod 30:10Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”
- 2 Chr 29:24Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
- Heb 13:11–13For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.
- Ezra 8:35The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
- Lev 4:25The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
- Lev 16:3“Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
- Lev 9:2and he said to Aaron, “Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before Yahweh.
- Num 7:16one male goat for a sin offering;
- Lev 5:8He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.
- Lev 4:3if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.
- Lev 4:29He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
- Lev 6:25“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy.
- Lev 4:32“‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.
- Lev 16:11“Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.
- Lev 5:6and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
- Lev 8:17But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Lev 16:27The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
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