Leviticus 4:12

Leviticus 4:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
• New International Version (NIV)that is, all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a place ceremonially clean, where the ashes are thrown, and burn it there in a wood fire on the ash heap.
• English Standard Version (ESV)all 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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)the whole bull he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

Context of Leviticus 4:12

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. 11Then he will take the entire bull (the skin, meat, head, legs, internal organs, and excrement) to 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. 14When the wrong they have done becomes known, the congregation must sacrifice a bull as an offering for sin. They must bring it in front of the tent of meeting.

Leviticus 4:12 word by word

וְהוֹצִ֣יא אֶת־כָּל־הַ֠פָּר אֶל־מִח֨וּץ לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֜ה אֶל־מָק֤וֹם טָהוֹר֙ אֶל־שֶׁ֣פֶךְ הַדֶּ֔שֶׁן וְשָׂרַ֥ף אֹת֛וֹ עַל־עֵצִ֖ים בָּאֵ֑שׁ עַל־שֶׁ֥פֶךְ הַדֶּ֖שֶׁן יִשָּׂרֵֽף׃ פRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Even the whole bullockפַּרpar pâr · bullockH6499
• shall he carry forthיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: sendH3318
• withoutחוּץchûts chûts · outsideH2351
• the campמַחֲנֶהmachăneh · campH4264
• unto a cleanטָהוֹרţâhôr ţâhôr · pureH2889
• placeמָקוֹםmâqôm mâqôm meqômâh meqômâh · placeH4725
• where the ashesדֶּ֫שֶׁןdeshen · ashesH1880
• are poured outשֶׁ֫פֶךְshephek · pouringH8211
• and burnשָׂרַףώâraph · to burnH8313
• him on the woodעֵץ‛êts · tree: woodH6086
• with fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784
• whereאֶל'êl 'el · to(wards)H413

Cross-references for Leviticus 4:12

• Leviticus 13:46As long as they have the skin disease, they are unclean. They must live outside the camp.
• Numbers 5:3Send all of these unclean men and women outside the camp. They must not make this camp where I live among you unclean.”
• Numbers 15:35Then the Lord said to Moses, “This man must be put to death. The whole community must take him outside the camp and stone him.”
• Numbers 19:3Give it to the priest Eleazar. It must be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
• Leviticus 6:10“The priest must put on his linen clothes, including his linen undergarments. Then he will remove the ashes left on the altar from the fire that consumed the burnt offering and will put them next to the altar.
• 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.
• 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 4:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Without the camp - This was intended figuratively to express the sinfulness of this sin, and the availableness of the atonement. The sacrifice, as having the sin of the priest transferred from himself to it by his confession and imposition of hands, was become unclean and abominable, and was carried, as it were, out of the Lord's sight; from the tabernacle and congregation it must be carried without the camp, and thus its own offensiveness was removed…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12A clean place where the ashes are poured out See Leviticus 1:16 note. It was a place free from impurities, not like those referred to in Leviticus 14:40, Leviticus 14:45. The flesh, though it was burned in an ordinary way, and not sent up in the fire of the altar (see Leviticus 1:9 note), was not to be confounded with carrion, but was associated with the remains of the sacrifices. The priests could not eat the flesh of this victim or of that offered for…Read the comment
• 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. 3-353. If the priest that is anointed do sin--that is, the high priest, in whom, considering his character as typical mediator, and his exalted office, the people had the deepest interest; and whose transgression of any part of the divine law, therefore, whether done unconsciously or heedlessly, was a very serious offense, both as regarded himself individually, and the influence of his example. He is the person principally meant, though the common order of…Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 4:12

• Ignorance
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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