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Leviticus 7:8

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As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the priest that offereth any man’s burnt-offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath offered.

KJV

And the priest that offereth any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.

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This verse in Leviticus 7

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering,.... In which the flesh was wholly burnt, and nothing of it remained to requite the priest for his trouble, as in other offerings: even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering, which he hath offered; in some cases the skin itself was burnt, and then he could have nothing, see Lev 4:11 but in others the skin was reserved for the priest.

This site's exposition

shall have to himself the skin

on Leviticus 7:8-10

Verse 8 gives the officiating priest the skin of the burnt offering, which is the one part of a whole burnt offering that does not go up from the altar in smoke. The meat offering is then divided two ways without a reason given. What was baked in the oven or dressed in a pan belongs to the priest who offered it, and what came mingled with oil or dry is shared among all the sons of Aaron, one as much as another. Adam Clarke passes on an older suggestion that the priest's right to the skin began with the coats of skins of Genesis 3:21, and he gives it as a supposition rather than as something the text states.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It is probable that the beasts whose skins they were were offered in sacrifice as whole burnt-offerings, and that Adam was the priest that offered them; and then God gave him the skins, as his fee, to make clothes of for himself and his wife, in remembrance of which the skins ever after pertained to the priest; and see Gen. xxvii.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The priest shall have to himself the skin - Bishop Patrick supposes that this right of the priest to the skin commenced with the offering of Adam, “for it is probable,” says he, “that Adam himself offered the first sacrifice, and had the skin given him by God to make garments for him and his wife; in conformity to which the priests ever after had the skin of the whole burnt-offerings for their portion, which was a custom among the Gentiles as well as the Jews, who gave the skins of their sacrifices to their priests, when they were not burnt with the sacrifices, as in some sin-offerings they were among the Jews, see Lev 4:

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

It has been thought that this was a patriarchal usage, incorporated with the Mosaic law, and that the right of the sacrificer to the skin of the victim was transmitted from the example of Adam (see on Ge 3:21).
The skin of the burnt offering - It is most likely that the skins of the sin-offering and the trespass-offering also fell to the lot of the officiating priest.

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.

  • וְהַ֨כֹּהֵ֔ןand the priest

    vehakohenH3548 →750 times

  • הַמַּקְרִ֖יבwho presents

    hamakrivH7126 →280 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • עֹ֣לַתa burnt offering of

    ʾolatH5930 →287 times

  • אִ֑ישׁanyone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • ע֤וֹר[the] hide of

    orH5785 →99 times

  • הָֽעֹלָה֙the burnt offering

    haolahH5930 →287 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הִקְרִ֔יבhe presented

    hikrivH7126 →280 times

  • לַכֹּהֵ֖ןto the priest

    lakohenH3548 →750 times

  • ל֥וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • יִהְיֶֽה׃it will belong

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

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

Related verses

6 in all, six open

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

    Romans 13:14

    Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

    it leads to

    • Ephesians 4:24

      and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

    • Galatians 5:16–17

      So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

    • Galatians 3:27

      For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

    • Galatians 5:24

      Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

    • 1 Peter 2:11

      Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

  • Through

    Genesis 3:21

    And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 61:10

      I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom…

    • 2 Corinthians 5:21

      God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

    • 2 Corinthians 5:2–3

      For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,

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 7 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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