Lévitique 6:28

28 Le vase de terre dans lequel il aura cuit sera brisé; mais s'il a cuit dans un vase d'airain, il sera écuré et lavé dans l'eau.

Lévitique 6:28 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 6:28

But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be
broken
That being porous, the liquor in which the sin offering was boiled might soak into it, and the smell of it be retained, and therefore, as such vessels were not very costly, they were ordered to be broken; but where the broken pieces were carried and laid, the Jewish writers are at a loss about; for, that vessels, which had served for holy uses, should be laid in an open public place and exposed, they thought was indecent; and as there might be in a course of time great quantities broken, it would look very disagreeable and unseemly to have them lie in heaps in the sanctuary; they therefore have framed a miracle, and conceit that they were swallowed up in the ground where they were laid ^F24:

and if it be sodden in a brazen it shall be both scoured and rinsed
in water;
brass, being more valuable, must not be destroyed; and besides the liquor could not soak into that, and whatever scent it retained was easily and soon removed by scouring and rinsing; the former was with hot water, and the latter with cold, as Ben Gersom affirms.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 21. 1.

Lévitique 6:28 In-Context

26 Le sacrificateur qui offrira le sacrifice pour le péché, le mangera; il sera mangé dans un lieu saint, dans le parvis du tabernacle d'assignation.

27 Quiconque en touchera la chair, sera sanctifié, et s'il en rejaillit du sang sur un vêtement, tu laveras dans un lieu saint ce vêtement sur lequel il aura rejailli.

28 Le vase de terre dans lequel il aura cuit sera brisé; mais s'il a cuit dans un vase d'airain, il sera écuré et lavé dans l'eau.

29 Tout mâle parmi les sacrificateurs en mangera:

30 C'est une chose très sainte. Mais nul sacrifice pour le péché, dont il sera porté du sang dans le tabernacle d'assignation, pour faire expiation dans le sanctuaire, ne sera mangé: il sera brûlé au feu.