Leviticus 4:11

Leviticus 4:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
• New International Version (NIV)But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, as well as the head and legs, the internal organs and the intestines—
• English Standard Version (ESV)But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung—
• New King James Version (NKJV)But the bull’s hide and all its flesh, with its head and legs, its entrails and offal—

Context of Leviticus 4:11

9and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys 10(just as these are removed from the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings), and the priest is to offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering. But the hide of the bull and all its meat, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its refuse, 12that is, all the rest of the bull, he is to bring outside the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on a fire of wood. Where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned. 13‘Now if the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally, and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, and they have done any one of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and they become guilty;

Leviticus 4:11 word by word

וְאֶת־ע֤וֹר הַפָּר֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־בְּשָׂר֔וֹ עַל־רֹאשׁ֖וֹ וְעַל־כְּרָעָ֑יו וְקִרְבּ֖וֹ וּפִרְשֽׁוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the skinעוֹר‛ôr · skinH5785
• of the bullockפַּרpar pâr · bullockH6499
• and all his fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320
• with his headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
• and with his legsכֶּ֫רַעkârâ‛ · legH3767
• and his inwardsקֶ֫רֶבqereb · entrails: inner partsH7130
• and his dungפֶּ֫רֶשׁperesh · fæcal matterH6569

Cross-references for Leviticus 4:11

• Leviticus 4:21Then the priest is to bring the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the congregation.
• Leviticus 6:30But no sin offering from which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place shall be eaten; it shall be [completely] burned in the fire.
• Leviticus 8:14Then he brought the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull.
• Leviticus 9:8So Aaron approached the altar and killed the calf as the sin offering, which was designated for himself.
• Leviticus 16:27The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place (Holy of Holies), shall be taken outside the camp; their skins, their meat, and their waste shall be burned in the fire.
• Exodus 29:14But the meat of the bull, its hide, and the contents of its intestines you shall burn in the fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
• Numbers 19:5Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its waste, shall be burned (reduced to ash).
• Psalms 103:12As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
• Hebrews 13:11For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.

Commentaries on Leviticus 4:11

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-12They would only burn the offerings for the priest or the entire community outside the camp. God might have commanded this because the offering had symbolically taken on the impurity (uncleanness) of the high priest or the community. So, they had to remove it outside the camp. The guilty people could not participate in or gain any benefit from their own sin offerings. This was true even for priests (Leviticus 6:19–23).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh--In ordinary circumstances, these were perquisites of the priests. But in the expiation necessary for a sin of the high priest, after the fat of the sacrifice was offered on the altar, the carcass was carried without the camp [Le 4:12], in order that the total combustion of it in the place of ashes might the more strikingly indicate the enormity of the transgression, and the horror with which he regarded it…Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 4:11

• Ignorance
• Priest
• Sanitation

In the dictionaries

• Dip
• Dung
• Encamp
• Horn
• Sanctuary
• Sinoffering
• Atonement, Day of
• Criticism
• Dung; Dung Gate
• Exodus, the Book of

Commentaries on Leviticus 4

• 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
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings