The priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
Parallel translations
- WEB The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
- KJV The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- NKJV The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of meeting.
- NASB The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.
- NLT The priest who offers the sacrifice as a sin offering must eat his portion in a sacred place within the courtyard of the Tabernacle.
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Quick answer
The priest who offers it eats it in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting. The priest shares in the sin offering as God provides for him.
Overview
The officiating priest eats the flesh of the sin offering within the sacred court, signifying that he bears the people's guilt in his mediating role. God sustains His ministers even through the offerings for sin. This priestly bearing of guilt foreshadows Christ, who truly bore our sins and through whom we have fellowship with God.
Cross-references & the web
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- Lev 10:17–18“Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them before the LORD.
- Ezek 44:28–29In regard to their inheritance, I am their inheritance. You are to give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.
- Hos 4:8They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.
- Ezek 42:13Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
- Ezek 46:20and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”
- Lev 6:16Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
- Exod 40:33And Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and he hung the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.
- Exod 38:9–19Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,
- Num 18:9–10A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.
- Exod 27:9–18You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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