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Exodus 29:14
But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God commands Moses and Aaron to dispose of the sin offering’s remains during the priestly consecration. The instruction follows the directive to burn the bull’s fat on the altar.
The words — תִּשְׂרֹף (tis.rof) means "you will burn," and בְּשַׂר (be.sar) translates literally to "flesh." These terms designate the complete physical destruction of the animal’s remains.
The thread — Leviticus 4:11 and Leviticus 4:21 repeat the command to remove the hide, flesh, and dung outside the camp. Exodus 30:10 situates this disposal within the broader annual atonement rites.
Why it lands — The text requires the sin offering’s remains to be carried beyond the community boundary. Readers must apply this rule by physically separating what was offered for sin from the camp.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
Cross-references
- Leviticus 4:11 But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
- Leviticus 4:21 Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Exodus 30:10 Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:24 And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.
- Ezra 8:35 Then the exiles who had returned from captivity sacrificed burnt offerings to the God of Israel: 12 bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs, and a sin offering of 12 male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.
- Hebrews 13:11 Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
- Leviticus 4:3 If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.
- Leviticus 4:25 Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
- Leviticus 4:29 He is to lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.
- Leviticus 4:32 If, however, he brings a lamb as a sin offering, he must bring an unblemished female.