Levítico 6:11

11 Después se desnudará de sus vestimentas, y se pondrá otras vestiduras, y sacará las cenizas con la grosura quemada fuera del campamento al lugar limpio

Levítico 6:11 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 6:11

And he shall put off his garments
Those before mentioned, he is said to put on:

and put on other garments;
not common garments or lay-habits, what the priests wore when they were not on duty; for, as Ben Gersom says, these were priestly garments, though meaner than the first, or those that were put off: and so Jarchi says, they were worse than they were: it seems as if they were such that were spotted and dirty, and threadbare, almost worn out, and only fit for such sort of work as to carry out ashes: and so Maimonides ^F23 observes, that these other garments are not to be understood of common garments; but of such that are meaner in value and esteem, for both are holy garments; and, indeed, nothing belonging to the priestly office was to be performed but with the priestly garments, and they were only to be worn by the priests while in service:

and carry forth the ashes;
when these, gathered on a heap, were become large, as Jarchi says, and there was no room for the pile of wood, they carried them out from thence; and this, he observes, was not obligatory every day, but the taking of them up, as in the preceding verse ( Leviticus 6:10 ) , they were bound to every day: and these they carried

without the camp, unto a clean place;
for though they were ashes, yet being ashes of holy things, were not to be laid in an unclean place, or where unclean things were: as the burnt offering was a type of Christ in his sufferings and death, enduring the fire of divine wrath in the room and stead of his people; so the carrying forth the ashes of the burnt offering, and laying them in a clean place, may denote the burial of the body of Christ without the city of Jerusalem, wrapped in a clean linen cloth and laid in a new tomb, wherein no man had been laid, ( Matthew 27:59 Matthew 27:60 ) ( Luke 23:53 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 In Misn. Tamid, c. 5. sect. 3.

Levítico 6:11 In-Context

9 Manda a Aarón y a sus hijos diciendo: Esta es la ley del holocausto: (es holocausto, porque se quema sobre el altar toda la noche hasta la mañana, y el fuego del altar arderá en él:

10 El sacerdote se pondrá su vestido de lino, y se vestirá calzoncillos de lino sobre su carne; y cuando el fuego hubiere consumido el holocausto, él apartará las cenizas con la grosura quemada de sobre el altar, y las pondrá junto al altar

11 Después se desnudará de sus vestimentas, y se pondrá otras vestiduras, y sacará las cenizas con la grosura quemada fuera del campamento al lugar limpio

12 Y el fuego encendido sobre el altar no se apagará, sino que el sacerdote pondrá en él leña cada mañana, y ordenará sobre él el holocausto, y quemará sobre él los sebos de la paz

13 El fuego arderá continuamente en el altar; no se apagará