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Leviticus 9:11
But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Aaron completes the disposal phase of the inaugural sin offering while Moses and the newly consecrated priests oversee the altar rites. He acts as the high priest executing the final step of the ceremony.
The words — The verb שָׂרַף (śārāp) translates literally as "he burned," and the prepositional phrase מִחוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה (miḥûṣ lammaḥănê) means "outside the camp."
The thread — This disposal directive directly echoes the command in Leviticus 8:17 and aligns with the sin offering regulations in Leviticus 4:11 and Leviticus 16:27.
Why it lands — The text records the physical removal of defiled sacrificial remains away from the community's perimeter. It establishes that ritual cleansing requires separating what bears the weight of sin from the place of worship.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.
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 8:17 But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.