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Leviticus 8:17
But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses performs the disposal during Aaron’s consecration, acting immediately after placing the fat on the altar and before presenting the burnt offering ram. This occurs at the ritual conclusion of the sin offering procedure.
The words — The Hebrew פִּרְשׁוֹ (pirsho) translates literally as “its offal” or “its dung,” denoting the waste matter of the bull. It appears in the verse alongside עוֹרוֹ (‘oro, “its hide”) and בְּשָׂרוֹ (beśaro, “its flesh”) to catalog the complete remains.
The thread — The command to burn sin offerings outside the camp appears in Exodus 29:14 and Leviticus 4:11, 4:21 as a repeated ritual directive. These passages consistently place the disposal of atonement remains beyond the community’s boundary.
Why it lands — The text requires the physical removal of the bull’s remains beyond the camp to maintain ritual separation. A reader must note that the command establishes a fixed spatial boundary for the disposal of the sin offering’s residue.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the Lord commanded Moses.
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—
- 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 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.
- Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- 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.