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Leviticus 4:11
But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Leviticus 4:11 interrupts the priest's instructions for the sin offering to specify the exact parts of the bull that must be removed after its fat is burned on the altar. The passage addresses the officiating priest during the atonement ritual.
The words — The Hebrew terms ע֤וֹר הַ/פָּר (or ha-par) and כָּל־בְּשָׂר (kol-beśar) literally render "the hide of the bull" and "all its flesh." These anchors introduce the complete inventory of body parts designated for disposal.
The thread — The directive to remove the hide, flesh, and dung outside the camp runs parallel to Exodus 29:14 and Leviticus 4:21, while the command to burn these parts in the priest's sight corresponds to Numbers 19:5. Leviticus 4:12 immediately specifies that the remaining portions must be burned on a wood fire on the ash heap.
Why it lands — The verse defines the precise physical boundaries of the sin offering, establishing that the entire animal must be removed from the sanctuary after its fat is offered. It requires the priest to execute a complete separation of the atonement animal from the camp.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
Cross-references
- Numbers 19:5 Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.
- Exodus 29:14 But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
- 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.
- 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.
- Leviticus 8:14 Moses then brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
- Leviticus 9:8 So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
- Leviticus 16:27 The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.
- Psalms 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
- 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.