Leviticus 1:6

Leviticus 1:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.
• New International Version (NIV)You are to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Then he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces,
• New King James Version (NKJV)And he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.

Context of Leviticus 1:6

4He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering [transferring symbolically his guilt to the sacrifice], that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf. 5He shall kill the young bull before the Lord; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting. Then he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces. 7The sons of Aaron the [high] priest shall put fire on the altar [of burnt offering] and arrange wood on the fire. 8Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head and the fat, on the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar.

Leviticus 1:6 word by word

וְהִפְשִׁ֖יט אֶת־הָעֹלָ֑ה וְנִתַּ֥ח אֹתָ֖הּ לִנְתָחֶֽיהָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And he shall flayפָּשַׁטpâshaţ · to stripH6584
• the burnt offeringעֹלָה‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh · burnt offeringH5930
• and cutנָתַחnâthach · to cutH5408
• it into his piecesנֵ֫תַחnêthach · pieceH5409

Cross-references for Leviticus 1:6

• Leviticus 7:8The priest who presents any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the hide of the burnt offering which he has presented.
• Genesis 3:21The Lord God made tunics of [animal] skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

Commentaries on Leviticus 1:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6He shall flay - Probably meaning the person who brought the sacrifice, who, according to some of the rabbins, killed, flayed, cut up, and washed the sacrifice, and then presented the parts and the blood to the priest, that he might burn the one, and sprinkle the other upon the altar. But it is certain that the priests also, and the Levites, flayed the victims, and the priest had the skin to himself; see Leviticus 7:8, and 2 Chronicles 29:34. The red…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6And he shall flay - The sacrificer, or his assistant, had to skin and cut up the victim. The hide was the gratuity of the officiating priest. Leviticus 7:8. His pieces - That is, its proper pieces, the parts into which it was usual for a sacrificed animal to be divided.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 3-9Verses 3-9 In the due performance of the Levitical ordinances, the mysteries of the spiritual world are represented by corresponding natural objects; and future events are exhibited in these rites. Without this, the whole will seem unmeaning ceremonies. There is in these things a type of the sufferings of the Son of God, who was to be a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world? The burning body of an animal was but a faint representation of that…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6The priest would burn the whole animal, except for the skin, which he kept as his share of the offering (Leviticus 7:8).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-17Commentary by Robert Jamieson 1. the Lord ... spake ... out of the tabernacle--The laws that are contained in the previous record were delivered either to the people publicly from Sinai, or to Moses privately, on the summit of that mountain; but on the completion of the tabernacle, the remainder of the law was announced to the Hebrew leader by an audible voice from the divine glory, which surmounted the mercy seat.Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 1:6

• Priest

In the dictionaries

• Burnt offering
• Pluck
• Criticism
• Exodus, the Book of
• Ezekiel
• Fire
• Genesis
• Law in the Old Testament
• Leviticus
• Priests and Levites

Commentaries on Leviticus 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings