But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.
Parallel translations
- WEB The meat and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.
- KJV And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.
- NKJV The flesh and the hide he burned with fire outside the camp.
- NASB The flesh and the hide, however, he burned with fire outside the camp.
- NLT The meat and the hide, however, he burned outside the camp.
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Quick answer
The meat and skin of the sin offering are burned outside the camp. Sin must be dealt with away from the dwelling place of God's people.
Overview
Burning the carcass 'outside the camp' marks the offering as bearing sin that must be removed from the holy community. Hebrews 13:11-13 draws on this very pattern: 'Jesus also suffered outside the gate,' bearing reproach to sanctify the people by his own blood. The detail thus foreshadows the place and meaning of Christ's atoning death.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Lev 4:11–12But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
- Lev 8:17But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.
- Lev 16:27–28The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.
- Lev 4:21Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Heb 13:11–12Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
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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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