The priest who offers the sacrifice as a sin offering must eat his portion in a sacred place within the courtyard of the Tabernacle.
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.
- 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.
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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
Cross-references · 10
- Lev 10:17–18“Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?
- Ezek 44:28–29They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
- Hos 4:8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
- Ezek 42:13Then he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, they are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
- Ezek 46:20He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
- Lev 6:16That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
- Exod 40:33He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
- Exod 38:9–19He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
- Num 18:9–10This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
- Exod 27:9–18“You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:
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