The flesh and the hide he burned with fire 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.
- BSB But he burned up the flesh and the hide 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 4:11–12The bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung,
- Lev 8:17But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Lev 16:27–28The 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.
- Lev 4:21He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Heb 13:11–12For 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.
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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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