Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
Parallel translations
- WEB For 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.
- KJV For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
- NKJV For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
- NASB For 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 the camp.
- NLT Under the old system, the high priest brought the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, and the bodies of the animals were burned outside the camp.
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Quick answer
On the Day of Atonement the bodies of the sin-offering animals were burned outside the camp while their blood was brought into the holy place. This Old Testament pattern foreshadows Christ's death outside Jerusalem.
Overview
Drawing on the Day of Atonement ritual (Leviticus 16), the author notes that the sin-offering carcasses were burned outside the camp. This detail sets up a typological comparison with Jesus in the next verse. The old covenant ritual thus pointed forward to the suffering of Christ as the true and final sin offering.
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Cross-references · 10
- 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.
- Exod 29:14But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
- Lev 9:11But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.
- Num 19:3Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
- Lev 6:30But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it must be burned.
- Lev 9:9The sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and applied it to the horns of the altar. And he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
- Lev 16:14–19And he is to take some of the bull’s blood and sprinkle it with his finger on the east side of the mercy seat; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the mercy seat.
- Lev 4:5–7Then the anointed priest shall take some of the bull’s blood and bring it into the Tent of Meeting.
- Lev 4:11–12But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
- Lev 4:16–21Then the anointed priest is to bring some of the bull’s blood into the Tent of Meeting,
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