Leviticus 6:26

26 The priest {who offers the sin offering} must eat it in a holy place--in the tent of assembly's courtyard.

Leviticus 6:26 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 6:26

The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it
Thereby signifying that he bore the sin of the person that brought the offering, and made atonement for it; as a type of Christ, who bore the sins of his people in his own body on the tree, and made satisfaction for them; see ( Leviticus 10:17 ) ( Hosea 4:8 ) . This is to be understood not of that single individual priest only that was the offerer, but of him and his family; for, as Ben Gersom observes, it was impossible for one man to eat all the flesh of a beast at one meal or two; but it means, as he says, the family of the priest that then officiated, the male part;

in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle
of the congregation;
within the hangings, as Ben Gersom's note is, with which the court of the tabernacle was hung and made; in some room in that part of the sanctuary did the priest, with his sons, eat of the holy offerings that were appropriated to them; an emblem of spiritual priests, believers in Christ, feeding in the church upon the provisions of his house, the goodness and fatness of it.

Leviticus 6:26 In-Context

24 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

25 "Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the regulation of the sin offering: In [the] place where the sin offering is slaughtered, the sin offering must be slaughtered {before} Yahweh; it [is] {a most holy thing}.

26 The priest {who offers the sin offering} must eat it in a holy place--in the tent of assembly's courtyard.

27 Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and [when] {some of} its blood spatters on a garment, what was spattered on it you shall wash in a holy place.

28 And a clay vessel in which it was boiled must be broken, but if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be thoroughly scoured and rinsed with water.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "one who offers it a sin offering"