Leviticus 4:10-20

10 just as the fat is removed from the ox[a] sacrificed as a fellowship offering. Then the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.
11 But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, as well as the head and legs, the internal organs and the intestines—
12 that is, all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a place ceremonially clean, where the ashes are thrown, and burn it there in a wood fire on the ash heap.
13 “ ‘If the whole Israelite community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands, even though the community is unaware of the matter, when they realize their guilt
14 and the sin they committed becomes known, the assembly must bring a young bull as a sin offering and present it before the tent of meeting.
15 The elders of the community are to lay their hands on the bull’s head before the LORD, and the bull shall be slaughtered before the LORD.
16 Then the anointed priest is to take some of the bull’s blood into the tent of meeting.
17 He shall dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it before the LORD seven times in front of the curtain.
18 He is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. The rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
19 He shall remove all the fat from it and burn it on the altar,
20 and do with this bull just as he did with the bull for the sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the community, and they will be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 4

This chapter contains the law of the sin offering, which was offered for sins committed through ignorance, error, and mistake, Le 4:1,2 and gives an account of the matter of them, and the rites belonging thereunto, which were different according to the persons for whom it was made, as for the anointed priest, Le 4:3-12 for the whole congregation, Le 4:13-21 and for the ruler, Le 4:22-26 and for any of the common people, Le 4:27-35.

Cross References 26

  • 1. Leviticus 9:4
  • 2. S Exodus 32:6
  • 3. S Exodus 29:13
  • 4. Exodus 29:14; Leviticus 8:17; Leviticus 9:11; Numbers 19:5
  • 5. S Exodus 29:14; Leviticus 8:17; Leviticus 9:11; Hebrews 13:11
  • 6. Leviticus 6:11; Leviticus 10:14; Numbers 19:9
  • 7. S Leviticus 1:16
  • 8. Leviticus 6:30
  • 9. Leviticus 16:3
  • 10. S ver 2; Lev 5:2-4,17; Numbers 15:24-26
  • 11. S ver 3
  • 12. Numbers 15:24; ver 23,28
  • 13. S Exodus 3:16; S Exodus 19:7
  • 14. 2 Chronicles 29:23
  • 15. S Exodus 29:10; Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 8:14,22; Numbers 8:10
  • 16. S ver 4
  • 17. S ver 5
  • 18. Numbers 19:4,18
  • 19. S ver 6
  • 20. Leviticus 8:15; Leviticus 17:6; 2 Chronicles 29:22
  • 21. ver 7; Leviticus 6:30; Leviticus 10:18
  • 22. Leviticus 5:9
  • 23. ver 8
  • 24. ver 26
  • 25. S Exodus 29:36; S Exodus 32:30; S Romans 3:25; Hebrews 10:10-12
  • 26. ver 26,31,35; Numbers 15:25

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The Hebrew word can refer to either male or female.
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