Leviticus 4 Footnotes

4:7 The horns of the altar are projections at each of its four corners and are part of the altar (Ex 27:2; 30:2). Altars with horns have been uncovered in Megiddo and Beer-sheba.

4:12 The portions of the priest’s sin offering that could not be burned on the altar had to be burned at a special place “outside the camp.” Such a designated dump for the sacrificial ashes existed outside Solomon’s temple (Jr 31:39-40). In Heb 13:11-12, the death of Christ “outside the gate” is compared to the burning of the sin offering “outside the camp.”