New English Translation
Leviticus 4:11
11But the hide of the bull, all its flesh along with its head and 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—
- 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
9the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver (which he is to remove along with the kidneys) 10– just as it is taken from the ox of the peace offering sacrifice – and the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering. But the hide of the bull, all its flesh along with its head and its legs, its entrails, and its dung – 12all the rest of the bull – he must bring outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ash pile, and he must burn it on a wood fire; it must be burned on the fatty ash pile. 13“‘If the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter is not noticed by the assembly, and they violate one of the Lord’s commandments, which must not be violated, so they become 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 4:21He must bring the rest of the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull – it is the sin offering of the assembly.
- Leviticus 6:30But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought into the Meeting Tent to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten. It must be burned up in the fire.
- Leviticus 8:14Then he brought near the sin offering bull and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the sin offering bull,
- Leviticus 9:8So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the sin offering calf which was for himself.
- Leviticus 16:27The bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought to make atonement in the holy place, must be brought outside the camp and their hide, their flesh, and their dung must be burned up,
- Exodus 29:14But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up outside the camp. It is the purification offering.
- Numbers 19:5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight – its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.
- Psalms 103:12As far as the eastern horizon is from the west, so he removes the guilt of our rebellious actions from us.
- Hebrews 13:11For the bodies of those animals whose blood the high priest brings into the sanctuary 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
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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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