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.
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.
- 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.
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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 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.
- Exod 29:14But 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.
- Lev 9:11The meat and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.
- Num 19:3You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.
- Lev 6:30No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire.
- Lev 9:9The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:
- Lev 16:14–19He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
- Lev 4:5–7The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.
- Lev 4:11–12The bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung,
- Lev 4:16–21The anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting:
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