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Leviticus 16:27

in Leviticus 16

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, flesh, and dung must be burned up.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the bullock of the sin-offering, and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

KJV

And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

This verse in Leviticus 16

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The flesh of both those sin-offerings whose blood was taken within the veil was to be all burnt, not upon the altar, but at a distance without the camp, to signify both our putting away sin by true repentance, and the spirit of burning, and God's putting it away by a full remission, so that it shall never rise up in judgment against us.

This site's exposition

The man who released the goat as the scapegoat

on Leviticus 16:26-28

The bull and the goat whose blood went inside are burned outside the camp, away from the altar. Hebrews 13:11-13 describes this arrangement and says that Jesus suffered outside the gate for the same reason.

This site's exposition

must be taken outside the camp

These are the animals whose blood went into the Most Holy Place, and the whole of each is burned, hides and dung with the flesh. Matthew Henry reads the burning as a picture of sin put away by repentance and by God's full pardon.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The fat was ordered to be burnt upon the altar; the rest of the carcasses to be cut down and given to some priestly attendants to burn without the camp, in conformity with the general law for the sin offerings (Le 4:8-12;

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How the passage was read

On Leviticus 16:1-34

On Leviticus 16:1-34

The day Israel still fasts

This chapter founds the Day of Atonement, in Hebrew Yom Kippur, the most solemn day of the Jewish year: the one day the high priest entered the innermost room of the sanctuary with blood for the nation's sins. With no Temple standing since AD 70, the day is kept now as a full fast: roughly 25 hours with no food or drink, most of it spent in synagogue prayer, many wearing white.

The Mishnah (the first code of Jewish oral law, about AD 200) defines the day's five abstentions: eating and drinking, washing, anointing, leather shoes, and marital relations (Yoma 8:1). It also carries a saying worth any reader's time: the day atones for sins between a person and God, “but for sins between a person and his fellow, the Day of Atonement does not atone until he has appeased his fellow” (Yoma 8:9). Reconciliation with people is homework done before the day.

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.

Sources: Mishnah Yoma 8:1 (the five abstentions) · Mishnah Yoma 8:9 (appease your fellow first) · The Day of Atonement (this site's study)

The words behind it

24 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.

  • וְאֵת֩and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • פַּ֨ר[the] bull of

    parH6499 →132 times

  • הַֽחַטָּ֜אתthe sin offering

    hachatatH2403 →295 times

  • וְאֵ֣ת׀and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • שְׂעִ֣יר[the] male goat of

    seirH8163 →59 times

  • הַֽחַטָּ֗אתthe sin offering

    hachatatH2403 →295 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הוּבָ֤אit was brought

    huva'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • דָּמָם֙blood their

    damamH1818 →360 times

  • לְכַפֵּ֣רto make atonement

    lekhaperH3722 →102 times

  • בַּקֹּ֔דֶשׁin the holy place

    bakodeshH6944 →469 times

  • יוֹצִ֖יאsomeone will bring out

    yotzi'H3318 →1067 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מִח֣וּץfrom [the] outside

    michutzH2351 →164 times

  • לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑הof the camp

    lamachanehH4264 →215 times

  • וְשָׂרְפ֣וּand people will burn

    vesarefuH8313 →117 times

  • בָאֵ֔שׁwith <the> fire

    vaeshH784 →378 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • עֹרֹתָ֥םhides their

    ʾorotamH5785 →99 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • בְּשָׂרָ֖םflesh their

    besaramH1320 →270 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • פִּרְשָֽׁם׃offal their

    pirshamH6569 →7 times

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

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 8:17

    But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.

    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 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 29:14

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

  • Through

    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.

    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:…

    • 1 Timothy 2:5–6

      For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

  • 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

    • 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.

    • 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 10:18

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

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.

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