Exodus 29:14
in Exodus 29But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin-offering.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Exodus 29
Commentary
6 notes on this verseIndeed consequently, "Christ our Passover has been sacrificed," as the apostle says. Offering himself to the Father as a new and real sacrifice of reconciliation, he was crucified—not in the temple whose due worship is now completed, nor within the enclosure of the city which was to be destroyed because of its crime, but "outside and beyond the camp." That way, as the mystery of the ancient sacrifices was ceasing, a new victim would be put on a new altar, and the cross of Christ would be the altar not of the temple but of the world.
This site's exposition
put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger
on Exodus 29:12-14
The words sin offering occur here for the first time in Scripture, and they arrive at the ordination of the priests rather than at the passover. The flesh, the skin and the dung are burned outside the camp, which is also the first occurrence of that phrase on the floor. Hebrews 13:11-13 takes up the arrangement by name and reads the crucifixion outside the gate against it, so the link is one the New Testament makes itself.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The law made those priests that had infirmity, and therefore they must first offer for their own sin, before they could make atonement for the people, Heb. vii. They were to put their hand on the head of their sacrifice (
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), to signify the imperfection of the legal dispensation (as the learned bishop Patrick notes); for the sins of the priests themselves could not be taken away by those sacrifices, but they must expect a better high priest and a better sacrifice.
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But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung,.... The several parts and members of him, head, legs, feet, &c. and the skin taken off of him, and the dung that comes from him.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
It is a sin-offering - See Clarke’s note on Gen 4:7; See Clarke’s note on Gen 13:13; See Clarke’s note on Lev 7:1, etc.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
“We do not find any outside. An inner sin-offering was one the blood of which was sprinkled within the Sanctuary — upon the veil in front of the Holy of Holies and the golden altar; that kind of a sin-offering was burnt completely outside the camp (Leviticus:23).
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
“This is the membrane upon the maw which is called tele [in old French].” This is Rashi’s language. In my opinion, the expression the fat that covereth the inwards is indeed a reference to the membrane [upon the maw].
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בְּשַׂ֤ר | besar | [the] flesh of | H1320 → | 270 times |
| הַפָּר֙ | hapar | the young bull | H6499 → | 132 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עֹר֣וֹ | oro | hide its | H5785 → | 99 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| פִּרְשׁ֔וֹ | pirsho | offal its | H6569 → | |
| תִּשְׂרֹ֣ף | tisrof | you will burn | H8313 → | 117 times |
| בָּאֵ֔שׁ | baesh | with <the> fire | H784 → | 378 times |
| מִח֖וּץ | michutz | from [the] outside | H2351 → | 164 times |
| לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה | lamachaneh | of the camp | H4264 → | 215 times |
| חַטָּ֖את | chatat | [is] a sin offering | H2403 → | 295 times |
| הֽוּא׃ | hu' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
בְּשַׂ֤ר[the] flesh of
besarH1320 →270 times
הַפָּר֙the young bull
haparH6499 →132 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
עֹר֣וֹhide its
oroH5785 →99 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
פִּרְשׁ֔וֹoffal its
pirshoH6569 →
תִּשְׂרֹ֣ףyou will burn
tisrofH8313 →117 times
בָּאֵ֔שׁwith <the> fire
baeshH784 →378 times
מִח֖וּץfrom [the] outside
michutzH2351 →164 times
לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑הof the camp
lamachanehH4264 →215 times
חַטָּ֖את[is] a sin offering
chatatH2403 →295 times
הֽוּא׃it
hu'H1931 →1879 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 30:10Once 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…
it leads to
- Leviticus 16:18
Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and…
- Hebrews 9:22–23
According to the law, in fact, nearly everything must be purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
- Leviticus 16:5–6
And he shall take from the congregation of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.
- Hebrews 9:25
Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
- Exodus 29:36–37
Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
- Leviticus 16:18
Through
Leviticus 4:21Then 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.
it leads to
- Leviticus 16:15
Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood:…
- Leviticus 4:11–12
But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
- Leviticus 16:15
Through
2 Chronicles 29:24And 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…
it leads to
- Romans 5:10–11
For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
- Romans 5:10–11
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About Exodus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Leo the Great, SERMON 59.5; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Sir Robert Anderson, Types in Hebrews.