English Standard Version
Leviticus 4:11
11But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung—
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—
- New King James Version (NKJV)But the bull’s hide and all its flesh, with its head and legs, its entrails and offal—
- New Living Translation (NLT)But he must take whatever is left of the bull—its hide, meat, head, legs, internal organs, and dung—
Context of Leviticus 4:11
9and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys 10(just as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings); and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung— 12all the rest of the bull—he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up. 13"If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt,
Read all of Leviticus 4Leviticus 4:11 word by word
וְאֶת־ע֤וֹר הַפָּר֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־בְּשָׂר֔וֹ עַל־רֹאשׁ֖וֹ וְעַל־כְּרָעָ֑יו וְקִרְבּ֖וֹ וּפִרְשֽׁוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 4:11
- Leviticus 4:21And he shall carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Leviticus 6:30But no sin offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it shall be burned up with fire.
- Leviticus 8:14Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.
- Leviticus 9:8So Aaron drew near to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
- Leviticus 16:27And the 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. Their skin and their flesh and their dung shall be burned up with fire.
- Exodus 29:14But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
- Numbers 19:5And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.
- Psalms 103:12as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
- Hebrews 13:11For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice 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
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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
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