Levitikus 6:10

10 (H6:3) Und der Priester soll sein leinenes Kleid anziehen, und soll seine leinenen Beinkleider anziehen über sein Fleisch; und er soll die Fettasche abheben, zu welcher das Feuer das Brandopfer auf dem Altar verzehrt hat, und soll sie neben den Altar schütten.

Levitikus 6:10 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 6:10

And the priest shall put on his linen garment
"His measure" ^F17, as the word signifies, a garment that was just the measure of his body, and exactly fitted it; it was a sort of a shirt, which he wore next his body, and reached down to his feet; and in this he always officiated, and was an emblem of the purity and holiness of Christ our high priest, who was without sin, and so a fit person to take away the sin of others, by offering up himself without spot to God:

and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh;
to cover his nakedness; that indecency might be prevented, and that he might not be exposed to ridicule; and though these two garments are only mentioned, yet the wise men say the word "put on" includes the bonnet and the girdle; for the removing of the ashes from the altar, which is the thing he was to be thus clothed to do, was done in the four garments, though the Scripture mentions but two ^F18:

and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed, with the burnt
offering on the altar;
this was the first thing the priests did in a morning, and which in later times they cast lots for, and the first lot was for this service, and which was performed very early ^F19;

``every day they cleansed or swept the altar, at cockcrowing or near it, whether before or after, and on the day of atonement at midnight, and at the feasts from the time of the first watch:''

and he shall put them beside the altar:
without, at the corner of the altar, as Aben Ezra, on the east side of it; so says Jarchi, the priest takes a full censer of the innermost consumptions (that is, of the innermost parts of the sacrifice reduced to ashes), and puts them in the east of the rise of the altar; or, as by another ^F20 expressed, he takes the ashes in a censer, more or less, and lays them down at the east of the rise of the altar, and there leaves them, and this is the beginning of the morning service: and we are told by another writer {u}, that there was a place called the house of ashes, and it was at the east of the rise of the altar, at a distance from the foot of it ten cubits and three hands' breadth; where the priest, before they began to sacrifice, laid the ashes of the sacrifices, and of the candlestick, and of the altar of incense, and of the offering of the fowl that were cast out.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (wdm) , "est" (dm) "proprie vestis commensurata corpori", Munster; so Jarchi.
F18 Maimon. in Misn. Tamid, c. 5. sect. 3.
F19 Misn. Yoma, c. 1. sect. 8.
F20 Bartenora in ib.
F21 Jacob. Jud. Leo. Tabnitid Hecal, No. 90. apud Wagenseil. Sotah, p. 426.

Levitikus 6:10 In-Context

8 (H6:1) Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

9 (H6:2) Gebiete Aaron und seinen Söhnen und sprich: Dies ist das Gesetz des Brandopfers. Dieses, das Brandopfer, soll auf seiner Feuerstelle sein, auf dem Altar, die ganze Nacht bis an den Morgen; und das Feuer des Altars soll auf demselben in Brand erhalten werden.

10 (H6:3) Und der Priester soll sein leinenes Kleid anziehen, und soll seine leinenen Beinkleider anziehen über sein Fleisch; und er soll die Fettasche abheben, zu welcher das Feuer das Brandopfer auf dem Altar verzehrt hat, und soll sie neben den Altar schütten.

11 (H6:4) Und er soll seine Kleider ausziehen und andere Kleider anlegen und die Fettasche hinaustragen außerhalb des Lagers an einen reinen Ort.

12 (H6:5) Und das Feuer auf dem Altar soll auf demselben in Brand erhalten werden, es soll nicht erlöschen; und der Priester soll Holz auf ihm anzünden, Morgen für Morgen, und das Brandopfer auf ihm zurichten, und die Fettstücke der Friedensopfer auf ihm räuchern.