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.
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.
- BSB The priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
- 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 10:17–18Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
- Ezek 44:28–29And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
- Hos 4:8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
- Ezek 42:13Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
- Ezek 46:20Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.
- Lev 6:16And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
- Exod 40:33And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
- Exod 38:9–19And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
- Num 18:9–10This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
- Exod 27:9–18And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
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