God’s Word Translation
Leviticus 4:11
11Then he will take the entire bull (the skin, meat, head, legs, internal organs, and excrement)
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 on them. He will also remove the lobe of the liver and the kidneys 10the same way they were removed from the bull used for the fellowship offering. The priest will lay them on the altar for burnt offerings. Then he will take the entire bull (the skin, meat, head, legs, internal organs, and excrement) 12to a clean place outside the camp where the ashes are dumped. He will burn it there on a wood fire. 13“If the whole congregation of Israel unintentionally does something wrong, without the assembly being aware of it, if they do even one thing that is forbidden by any of the Lord’s commands, they will be guilty.
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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 4:11
- Leviticus 4:21Then he will take the bull outside the camp and will burn it the same way he burned the first bull. It is an offering for sin for the community.
- Leviticus 6:30Any offering for sin must not be eaten if some of the blood was brought into the holy place in the tent of meeting to make peace with the Lord. It must be burned.”
- Leviticus 8:14He brought the bull that was the offering for sin. Aaron and his sons placed their hands on its head.
- Leviticus 9:8Aaron came to the altar and slaughtered the calf as his own offering for sin.
- Leviticus 16:27He must take the bull and the goat outside the camp. These animals were the offering for sin whose blood was brought into the holy place to make peace with the Lord for sins. The skin, meat, and excrement from the animals must be burned.
- Exodus 29:14But burn the bull’s meat, skin, and excrement outside the camp. It is an offering for sin.
- Numbers 19:5Then the entire cow (the skin, meat, blood, and excrement) will be burned while he watches.
- Psalms 103:12As far as the east is from the west— that is how far he has removed our rebellious acts from himself.
- Hebrews 13:11The chief priest brings the blood of animals into the holy place as an offering for sin. But the bodies of those animals were burned outside the Israelite 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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