Leviticus 4:11

11 Everything else - the bull's hide, meat, head, legs, organs, and guts -

Leviticus 4:11 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 4:11

And the skin of the bullock
Not taken off; for the sin offerings that were burnt were not flayed at all, but were cut in pieces with their skins on them F1; in other burnt offerings the skin was taken off, and was a perquisite of the priest, ( Leviticus 7:8 ) but this being an offering for the priest, the skin was burnt with the rest:

and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his
inwards, and his dung;
the burning of these denoted the sufferings of Christ, and these several parts the extent of them, they reaching to all parts of his body as stretched upon the cross; and the dung particularly the reproach of them, he dying the death of the cross, and was made sin and a curse for his people.


FOOTNOTES:

F1 Ib. (Maasch Hakoranot) c. 5. sect. 18. & 7. 2.

Leviticus 4:11 In-Context

9 the two kidneys and the fat that is around them at the loins, and the lobe of the liver which he takes out along with the kidneys
10 - the same procedure as when the fat is removed from the bull of the Peace-Offering. Finally, he is to burn all this on the Altar of Burnt Offering.
11 Everything else - the bull's hide, meat, head, legs, organs, and guts -
12 he is to take outside the camp to a clean place where the ashes are dumped and is to burn it on a wood fire.
13 "If the whole congregation sins unintentionally by straying from one of the commandments of God that must not be broken, they become guilty even though no one is aware of it.
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