The priest must also remove the crop and the feathers and throw them in the ashes on the east side of the altar.
Parallel translations
- WEB and he shall take away its crop with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.
- KJV And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:
- BSB And he is to remove the crop with its contents and throw it to the east side of the altar, in the place for ashes.
- NKJV And he shall remove its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east side, into the place for ashes.
- NASB He shall also remove its craw with its feathers and throw it beside the altar eastward, to the place of the fatty ashes.
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Quick answer
The bird's crop and refuse are removed and cast aside in the place of ashes. Even in the humblest offering, impurity must be removed before God.
Overview
The careful disposal of the unclean parts shows that holiness governs every detail of worship, even with the smallest sacrifice. What is unfit is set apart from what ascends to God. This attention to purity reflects God's holiness and anticipates the perfect purity of Christ's offering, in which nothing needed removing (1 Peter 1:19).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Heb 13:11–14For 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.
- Lev 4:12he shall carry the whole bull outside of the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out, it shall be burned.
- 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.
- Luke 1:35The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
- 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
- Lev 6:10–11The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen breeches upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
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