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Leviticus 4:11

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But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung,

KJV

And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,

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This verse in Leviticus 4

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But in the expiation necessary for a sin of the high priest, after the fat of the sacrifice was offered on the altar, the carcass was carried without the camp [Le 4:12], in order that the total combustion of it in the place of ashes might the more strikingly indicate the enormity of the transgression, and the horror with which he regarded it (compare Heb 13:12, 13).

This site's exposition

the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh

on Leviticus 4:11-12

Nothing of this animal is eaten. The whole bullock, skin and head and legs and dung, is carried out of the camp and burned on wood, and the ground it is taken to is called a clean place. Hebrews 13:11 describes this verse, that the bodies of beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp, and Hebrews 13:12 says Jesus suffered without the gate for that reason.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And the skin of the bullock,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This was very significant, (1.) Of the duty of repentance, which is the putting away of sin as a detestable thing, which our soul hates. True penitents say to their idols, "Get you hence; what have we to do any more with idols?" The sin-offering is called sin. What they did to that we must do to our sins; the body of sin must be destroyed, Rom. vi.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

in the same manner as they were separated from the ox of the peace[ sacred ]-offering.
Targum · Onkelos Leviticus 4:10, via Sefaria, Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

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. 6 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

12 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • ע֤וֹר[the] hide of

    orH5785 →99 times

  • הַפָּר֙the bull

    haparH6499 →132 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • בְּשָׂר֔וֹflesh its

    besaroH1320 →270 times

  • עַל־with

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • רֹאשׁ֖וֹhead its

    roshoH7218 →599 times

  • וְעַל־and with

    veal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כְּרָעָ֑יוlegs its

    keraavH3767 →9 times

  • וְקִרְבּ֖וֹand entrails its

    vekirboH7130 →227 times

  • וּפִרְשֽׁוֹ׃and offal its

    ufirshoH6569 →7 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

10 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 19:5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.6 worksExodus 29:14But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.4 worksLeviticus 9:8–11So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.2 worksPsalms 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.2 worksLeviticus 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.2 worksLeviticus 6:30But 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.2 works
The other 4 cross-references, with their words ▾
Hebrews 13:11–13Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.2 worksLeviticus 8:14–17Moses then brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.2 worksLeviticus 16:27The 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.2 worksLeviticus 7:8As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Psalms 103:12

    As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 43:25

      I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

    • 1 John 1:7

      But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

    • Micah 7:18

      Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

    • Isaiah 38:17

      Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

    • Jeremiah 31:34

      No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I…

  • Through

    Exodus 29:14

    But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 4:11–12

      But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • 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.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 29:14

      But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 4 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Sir Robert Anderson, Types in Hebrews.

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