Levitico 1:11

11 Lo scannerà dal lato settentrionale dell’altare, davanti all’Eterno; e i sacerdoti, figliuoli d’Aaronne, ne spargeranno il sangue sull’altare, tutt’intorno.

Levitico 1:11 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 1:11

And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward
before the Lord
This is a circumstance not mentioned in the killing of the bullock: Maimonides ^F7 says, there was a square place from the wall of the altar northward, to the wall of the court, and it was sixty cubits, and all that was over against the breadth of this, from the wall of the porch to the eastern wall, and it is seventy six cubits; and this foursquare place is called the "north", for the slaying of the most holy things; so that it seems this being a large place, was fittest for this purpose. Aben Ezra intimates, as if some respect was had to the situation of Mount Zion; his note is, "on the side of the altar northward", i.e. without, and so "the sides of the north", ( Psalms 48:2 ) for so many mistake who say that the tower of Zion was in the midst of Jerusalem; and with this agrees Mr. Ainsworth's note on ( Leviticus 6:25 ) hereby was figured, that Christ our sin offering should be killed by the priests in Jerusalem, and Mount Sion, which was on "the sides of the north", ( Psalms 48:2 ) crucified on Mount Calvary, which was on the northwest side of Jerusalem; as by the Jews' tradition, the morning sacrifice was killed at the northwest horn of the altar ^F8:

and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle the blood round about
upon the altar; (See Gill on Leviticus 1:5).

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 In Misn. Zebachim, c. 5. sect. 1.
F8 Misn. Tamid, c. 4. sect. 1.

Levitico 1:11 In-Context

9 ma le interiora e le gambe si laveranno con acqua, e il sacerdote farà fumare ogni cosa sull’altare, come un olocausto, un sacrifizio di soave odore, fatto mediante il fuoco all’Eterno.

10 Se la sua offerta è un olocausto di capi di gregge, di pecore o di capre, offrirà un maschio senza difetto.

11 Lo scannerà dal lato settentrionale dell’altare, davanti all’Eterno; e i sacerdoti, figliuoli d’Aaronne, ne spargeranno il sangue sull’altare, tutt’intorno.

12 Poi lo si taglierà a pezzi, che, insieme colla testa e col grasso, il sacerdote disporrà sulle legna messe sul fuoco sopra l’altare;

13 ma le interiora e le gambe si laveranno con acqua, e il sacerdote offrirà ogni cosa e la farà fumare sull’altare. Questo è un olocausto, un sacrifizio di soave odore, fatto mediante il fuoco all’Eterno.