For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without 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.
- BSB 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.
- 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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- Lev 16:27And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
- Exod 29:14But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
- Lev 9:11And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.
- Num 19:3And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
- Lev 6:30And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.
- Lev 9:9And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:
- Lev 16:14–19And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
- Lev 4:5–7And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock’s blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:
- Lev 4:11–12And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
- Lev 4:16–21And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock’s blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
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