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Leviticus 4:33

in Leviticus 4

And he is to lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it as a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and kill it for a sin-offering in the place where they kill the burnt-offering.

KJV

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

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This verse in Leviticus 4

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
He shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering,.... On the head of the lamb, as on the head of the goat, even his right hand, as the above Targum, as before: and slay it for a sin offering, in the place where they kill the burnt offering: for if it was not slain for a sin offering, but for something else, or on any other account, as for a burnt offering, it was not right (q). (q) T. Bab. Zebachim, fol. 7. 1. & Menachot, fol. 4. 1.

This site's exposition

If, however, he brings a lamb as a sin offering

on Leviticus 4:32-35

The chapter closes by giving the common man a choice nobody above him is given. He may bring a lamb in place of the goat.

This site's exposition

slaughter it as a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered

The lamb is killed where the burnt offering is killed, on the north side of the altar named at 1:11. John Gill cites the Talmud, which holds that the lamb had to be slain with the purpose of a sin offering. Killing it for another purpose made the rite invalid.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

That is certainly a very bad thing to make atonement for which so many innocent and useful creatures must be slain and mangled thus. To value Christ, the great and true sin-offering, whose blood cleanses from all sin, which it was not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away. Now, if any man sin, Christ is the propitiation ( 1 John ii.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

In these two latter instances, the blood of the sin offering was applied to the altar of burnt offering--the place where bloody sacrifices were appointed to be immolated.

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.

  • וְסָמַךְ֙and he will lean

    vesamakhH5564 →48 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יָד֔וֹhand his

    yadoH3027 →1618 times

  • עַ֖לon

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • רֹ֣אשׁ[the] head of

    roshH7218 →599 times

  • הַֽחַטָּ֑אתthe sin offering

    hachatatH2403 →295 times

  • וְשָׁחַ֤טand he will cut [the] throat of

    veshachatH7819 →81 times

  • אֹתָהּ֙<obj.> it

    ʾotahH853 →10935 times

  • לְחַטָּ֔אתto a sin offering

    lechatatH2403 →295 times

  • בִּמְק֕וֹםin [the] place

    bimkomH4725 →401 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥ר<of> where

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יִשְׁחַ֖טsomeone cuts [the] throat of

    yishchatH7819 →81 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָעֹלָֽה׃the burnt offering

    haolahH5930 →287 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 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 4:4

    He must bring the bull to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, lay his hand on the bull’s head, and slaughter it before the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 1:3–4

      If one’s offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the…

    • Exodus 29:10–11

      You are to present the bull at the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head.

    • Isaiah 53:6

      We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

    • Daniel 9:26

      Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end…

    • 1 Peter 3:18

      For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
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This page draws on 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; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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