Leviticus 6:11
in Leviticus 6Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
KJV
And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
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This verse in Leviticus 6
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd put on other garments - The priests approached the altar in their holiest garments; when carrying the ashes, etc., from the altar, they put on other garments, the holy garments being only used in the holy place. Clean place - A place where no dead carcasses, dung, or filth of any kind was laid; for the ashes were holy, as being the remains of the offerings made by fire unto the Lord.
This site's exposition
This is the law of the burnt offering
on Leviticus 6:9-13
The five offerings are given here a second time from the side of the priest who handles them, each section opening as this is the law of, and the first duty laid on Aaron and his sons is carrying out ashes. He takes them up in his linen, then puts off those garments and puts on others to carry the ashes outside the camp to ground the text calls clean, so what is left of a burnt offering is handled as holy rather than thrown away. Around that housekeeping stands the one command this passage gives three times, at verse 9, at verse 12 and again at verse 13: the fire of the altar is kept burning and never goes out. Leviticus 9:24 has fire coming out from before the LORD to consume the first offering laid on that altar, and the wood the priest lays on every morning feeds a fire he did not light.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Other garments - Because this was no sacred, but a common work. A clean place - Where no dung or filth was laid. The priest himself was to do all this.
And he shall put off his garments,....
God would have this done, for the honour of his altar and the sacrifices that were burnt upon it. Even the ashes of the sacrifices must be preserved, to testify the regard God had to it; by the burnt-offering he was honoured, and therefore thus it was honoured, and therefore thus it was honoured.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
כל זכר ALL THE MALES [AMONG THE CHILDREN OF AARON SHALL EAT OF IT] — all the males: even one with a bodily blemish. But why is this stated at all?
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Even to apportion it [i.e., the residue of the meal-offering which the priests are to eat] they are not permitted to do until after the parts given to the fire [i.e., the handful] have gone up on the altar.
It should not be baked [as] leavened. I have given it to them as their portion from my fire-offerings [ offerings ].
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. 3 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
15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּפָשַׁט֙ | ufashat | and he will strip off | H6584 → | 43 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בְּגָדָ֔יו | begadav | garments his | H899 → | 217 times |
| וְלָבַ֖שׁ | velavash | and he will put on | H3847 → | 110 times |
| בְּגָדִ֣ים | begadim | garments | H899 → | 217 times |
| אֲחֵרִ֑ים | ʾacherim | other | H312 → | 166 times |
| וְהוֹצִ֤יא | vehotzi' | and he will take out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַדֶּ֙שֶׁן֙ | hadeshen | the fatty ash | H1880 → | 15 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| מִח֣וּץ | michutz | from [the] outside | H2351 → | 164 times |
| לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה | lamachaneh | of the camp | H4264 → | 215 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| מָק֖וֹם | makom | a place | H4725 → | 401 times |
| טָהֽוֹר׃ | tahor | pure | H2889 → | 94 times |
וּפָשַׁט֙and he will strip off
ufashatH6584 →43 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
בְּגָדָ֔יוgarments his
begadavH899 →217 times
וְלָבַ֖שׁand he will put on
velavashH3847 →110 times
בְּגָדִ֣יםgarments
begadimH899 →217 times
אֲחֵרִ֑יםother
ʾacherimH312 →166 times
וְהוֹצִ֤יאand he will take out
vehotzi'H3318 →1067 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַדֶּ֙שֶׁן֙the fatty ash
hadeshenH1880 →15 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
מִח֣וּץfrom [the] outside
michutzH2351 →164 times
לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔הof the camp
lamachanehH4264 →215 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
מָק֖וֹםa place
makomH4725 →401 times
טָהֽוֹר׃pure
tahorH2889 →94 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
Ezekiel 44:19When they go out to the outer court, to the people, they are to take off the garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes…
it leads to
- Leviticus 6:10–11
And the priest shall put on his linen robe and linen undergarments, and he shall remove from the altar the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed and place them beside…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Leviticus 6:27
Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in a holy place.
- Ezekiel 46:20
and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring…
- Leviticus 6:10–11
Through
Leviticus 4:12all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the…
it leads to
- 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.
- Exodus 29:14
But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
- Hebrews 13:11
Through
Leviticus 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,…
it leads to
- 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 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 4:11–12
But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
- Leviticus 6:30
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.