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, which is on the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys 10(just as it is 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 flesh with its head and its legs and its entrails and its refuse, 12that is, all the rest of the bull, he is to bring out to a clean place outside the camp where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned. 13‘Now if the whole congregation of Israel commits error and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, and they commit any 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

• the hideעוֹר‛ôr · skinH5785
• of the bullפַּרpar pâr · bullockH6499
• and allכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• its fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320
• with its headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
• and its legsכֶּ֫רַעkârâ‛ · legH3767
• and its entrailsקֶ֫רֶבqereb · entrails: inner partsH7130
• and its refuseפֶּ֫רֶשׁperesh · fæcal matterH6569

Cross-references for Leviticus 4:11

• Leviticus 4:21Then he is to bring out the bull to a place outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.
• Leviticus 6:30But no sin offering of 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 burned 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 came near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering which was for himself.
• Leviticus 16:27But the bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be taken outside the camp, and they shall burn their hides, their flesh, and their refuse in the fire.
• Exodus 29:14But the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
• Numbers 19:5Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned.
• 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 holy place 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