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Leviticus 10:16
Later, Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, and asked,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses confronts Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s surviving sons, immediately after the slaughter of the people’s sin offering. He discovers the prescribed goat has been consumed outside the sanctuary rather than eaten in the holy place as required.
The words — The text highlights דָּרַשׁ (da.Rash), meaning “he sought,” and שֹׂרָף (so.Raf), meaning “it had been burned.” These verbs frame Moses’ inspection and the goat’s unexpected destruction.
The thread — The sin offering procedure appears in Leviticus 9:3 and Leviticus 9:15, where the goat is prescribed and slaughtered for the people. Moses’ anger echoes his reaction in Exodus 32:19 upon witnessing covenant violation.
Why it lands — The passage demands strict adherence to prescribed ritual locations and timing for atonement sacrifices. It establishes that procedural obedience in worship carries immediate accountability.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,
Cross-references
- Leviticus 9:3 Then speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without blemish—for a burnt offering,
- Leviticus 9:15 Aaron then presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it for sin like the first one.
- Exodus 32:19 As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.
- Leviticus 6:26 The priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 6:30 But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it must be burned.
- Numbers 12:3 Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.
- Matthew 5:22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.
- Mark 3:5 Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.
- Mark 10:14 But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and told them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
- Ephesians 4:26 “Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,