Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Leviticus 4:12

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without the camp: Heb. to without the camp, This was intended, figuratively, to express the enormity of this sin, and the availableness of the atonement. The sacrifice, as having the sin of the priest transferred from himself to it, by his confession and imposition of hands, was become unclean and abominable, and was carried, as it were, out of God's sight; and thus its own offensiveness was removed, with the sin of the person in whose behalf it was offered. Lev 13:46; Num 5:3, Num 15:35, Num 19:3 the ashes: Lev 6:10, Lev 6:11 burn him: Exo 29:14; Num 19:5; Heb 13:11 where the ashes are poured out: Heb. at the pouring out of the ashes Leviticus 4:13

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