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,
• 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—
• 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

9both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys— 10just as the fat is removed from the ox sacrificed as a fellowship offering. Then the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, as well as the head and legs, the internal organs and the intestines— 12that 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. 13“ ‘If the whole Israelite community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though the community is unaware of the matter, when they realize their guilt

Leviticus 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.

• And the skinעוֹר‛ôr · skinH5785
• of the bullockפַּרpar pâr · bullockH6499
• and all his fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320
• with his headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
• and with his legsכֶּ֫רַעkârâ‛ · legH3767
• and his inwardsקֶ֫רֶבqereb · entrails: inner partsH7130
• and his dungפֶּ֫רֶשׁperesh · fæcal matterH6569

Cross-references for Leviticus 4:11

• Leviticus 4:21Then he shall take the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. This is the sin offering for the community.
• Leviticus 6:30But any sin offering whose blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place must not be eaten; it must be burned up.
• Leviticus 8:14He then presented the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
• Leviticus 9:8So Aaron came to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
• Leviticus 16:27The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh and intestines are to be burned up.
• Exodus 29:14But burn the bull’s flesh and its hide and its intestines outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
• Numbers 19:5While he watches, the heifer is to be burned—its hide, flesh, blood and intestines.
• Psalms 103:12as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
• Hebrews 13:11The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies 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