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Leviticus 10:18

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Since its blood was not brought inside the holy place, you should have eaten it in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Behold, the blood of it was not brought into the sanctuary within: ye should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.

KJV

Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.

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This verse in Leviticus 10

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place,.... When that was the case, indeed, the flesh of the sin offering was not to be eaten, but burnt, see Lev 6:30 but this was not the case now, and therefore its flesh should have been eaten, and not burnt: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded, Lev 6:26.

This site's exposition

Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering

on Leviticus 10:16-18

The goat is the people's sin offering of Leviticus 9:15, burned when Leviticus 6:26 required the priests to eat it. By verse 17 the priests' eating was itself part of taking away the guilt of the congregation.

This site's exposition

Since its blood was not brought inside the holy place

A sin offering whose blood is taken into the tent is burned, and one whose blood stays outside is eaten, as John Gill sets out. Barnes notes the Hebrew calls the inner room the holy, and uses the full phrase holy place for the precinct where the flesh was eaten.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

The blood was not brought in - Because Aaron was not yet admitted into the holy place, whither that blood should have been brought, 'till he had prepared the way by the sacrifices which were to be offered in the court.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

“The holy place,” as it is called in our version, within the tabernacle (see Exo 26:33; Exo 28:29, etc.) into which the blood was carried, is regularly called in Hebrew, simply, “the holy” (as the innermost chamber is called “the holy of holies”), the adjective being used substantively; while the precinct in which the flesh of the sin-offering was eaten is generally called in full the holy place, the substantive being expressed Lev 10:13.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt--In a sacrifice presented, as that had been, on behalf of the people, it was the duty of the priests, as typically representing them and bearing their sins, to have eaten the flesh after the blood had been sprinkled upon the altar.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • הֵ֚ןhere!

    henH2005 →316 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • הוּבָ֣אit was brought

    huva'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • דָּמָ֔הּblood its

    damahH1818 →360 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁthe holy place

    hakodeshH6944 →469 times

  • פְּנִ֑ימָהwithin

    penimahH6441 →

  • אָכ֨וֹלcertainly <to eat>

    ʾakholH398 →810 times

  • תֹּאכְל֥וּyou will eat

    tokheluH398 →810 times

  • אֹתָ֛הּ<obj.> it

    ʾotahH853 →10935 times

  • בַּקֹּ֖דֶשׁin the holy place

    bakodeshH6944 →469 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • צִוֵּֽיתִי׃I commanded

    tziveitiH6680 →494 times

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

Related verses

2 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

    Leviticus 6:26

    The priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 10:17–18

      “Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them…

    • Ezekiel 44:28–29

      In regard to their inheritance, I am their inheritance. You are to give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.

    • 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…

    • Hosea 4:8

      They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.

    • Ezekiel 42:13

      Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they…

  • Through

    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.

    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.

    • Leviticus 16:27–28

      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,…

    • Leviticus 4:3–21

      If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 10 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; 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); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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