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Leviticus 4:11
11But he must take whatever is left of the bull—its hide, meat, head, legs, internal organs, and 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 and the fat around them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver. He must remove these along with the kidneys, 10just as he does with cattle offered as a peace offering, and burn them on the altar of burnt offerings. But he must take whatever is left of the bull—its hide, meat, head, legs, internal organs, and dung— 12and carry it away to a place outside the camp that is ceremonially clean, the place where the ashes are dumped. There, on the ash heap, he will burn it on a wood fire. 13“If the entire Israelite community sins by violating one of the Lord’s commands, but the people don’t realize it, they are still 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
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Cross-references for Leviticus 4:11
- Leviticus 4:21Then the priest must take what is left of the bull and carry it outside the camp and burn it there, just as is done with the sin offering for the high priest. This offering is for the sin of the entire congregation of Israel.
- Leviticus 6:30But the offering for sin may not be eaten if its blood was brought into the Tabernacle as an offering for purification in the Holy Place. It must be completely burned with fire.
- Leviticus 8:14Then Moses presented the bull for the sin offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the bull’s head,
- Leviticus 9:8So Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
- Leviticus 16:27“The bull and the goat presented as sin offerings, whose blood Aaron takes into the Most Holy Place for the purification ceremony, will be carried outside the camp. The animals’ hides, internal organs, and dung are all to be burned.
- Exodus 29:14Then take the rest of the bull, including its hide, meat, and dung, and burn it outside the camp as a sin offering.
- Numbers 19:5As Eleazar watches, the heifer must be burned—its hide, meat, blood, and dung.
- Psalms 103:12He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.
- Hebrews 13:11Under the old system, the high priest brought the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, and the bodies of the animals were 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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