He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
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He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
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And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
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(6-4) And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 6:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 4:12 —all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out.
- Ezekiel 44:19 When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.
- Hebrews 13:11-13 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp. Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate. Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
- Leviticus 4:21 He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Leviticus 14:40-41 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city. He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place.
- Leviticus 16:23-24 “Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there. Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.
- Leviticus 16:27 The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 6:11 And he shall put off his garments,…
Lev 6:11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
Ver. 11. Unto a clean place.] Because they came from the Lord’s holy house. See the contrary commanded concerning the stones and dust of a leprous house. {Lev 14:40}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Put on other garments, because this was no sacred,…
Put on other garments, because this was no sacred, but a common work.
Unto a clean place, where no dung or filth was laid. See Lev 4:12, and compare Lev 14:40,41.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he shall put off his garments,.... Those before…
And he shall put off his garments,.... Those before mentioned, he is said to put on:
and put on other garments; not common garments or lay-habits, what the priests wore when they were not on duty; for, as Ben Gersom says, these were priestly garments, though meaner than the first, or those that were put off: and so Jarchi says, they were worse than they were: it seems as if they were such that were spotted and dirty, and threadbare, almost worn out, and only fit for such sort of work as to carry out ashes: and so Maimonides (w) observes, that these other garments are not to be understood of common garments; but of such that are meaner in value and esteem, for both are holy garments; and, indeed, nothing belonging to the priestly office was to be performed but with the priestly garments, and they were only to be worn by the priests while in service:
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and carry forth the ashes; when these, gathered on a heap, were become large, as Jarchi says, and there was no room for the pile of wood, they carried them out from thence; and this, he observes, was not obligatory every day, but the taking of them up, as in the preceding verse Lev 6:10, they were bound to every day: and these they carried
without the camp, unto a clean place; for though they were ashes, yet being ashes of holy things, were not to be laid in an unclean place, or where unclean things were: as the burnt offering was a type of Christ in his sufferings and death, enduring the fire of divine wrath in the room and stead of his people; so the carrying forth the ashes of the burnt offering, and laying them in a clean place, may denote the burial of the body of Christ without the city of Jerusalem, wrapped in a clean linen cloth and laid in a new tomb, wherein no man had been laid, Mat 27:59.
(w) In Misn. Tamid, c. 5. sect. 3.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Other garments - Because this was no sacred, but…
Other garments - Because this was no sacred, but a common work. A clean place - Where no dung or filth was laid. The priest himself was to do all this. God's servants must think nothing below them but sin.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. And put on other garments] The priests…
Verse 11. And put on other garments] The priests approached the altar in their holiest garments; when carrying the ashes, c., from the altar, they put on other garments, the holy garments being only used in the holy place.
Clean place.] A place where no dead carcasses, dung, or filth of any kind was laid for the ashes were holy, as being the remains of the offerings made by fire unto the Lord.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 6:11. Other garments — Because this was no…
Lev 6:11. Other garments — Because this was no sacred, but a common work. A clean place — Where no dung or filth was laid. The priest himself was to do all this. God’s servants must think nothing below them but sin.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Others; such as were worn on common occasions, out…
Others; such as were worn on common occasions, out of the tabernacle. --- And shall, &c. Hebrew has only, "unto a clean place," as the other versions and some Latin copies read. The meaning of the addition is, that all the bones, &c., must be perfectly reduced to dust, before they be carried out of the camp. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Put on other garments — This change was…
11. Put on other garments — This change was required because the priest was to go forth from the consecrated enclosure of the tabernacle and to come in contact with things unsanctified. The ashes must be deposited in a clean place, because they were regarded as a part of the holy offering.
See note on Lev_4:12.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. beside the altar] on the east part (Lev_1:16,…
11. beside the altar] on the east part (Lev_1:16, there called the place of the ashes).
put off his garments] Cp. Eze_44:19 for the reason. For the danger to unconsecrated persons arising from what has been called ‘contagious holiness’ as a feature of early religions see Rob.-Sm. Rel. Sem.2 pp. 46 ff. See further on Lev_6:18.
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put on other garments] The priestly garments were worn only at the altar and in the tabernacle. On going without the sacred precincts they were removed. Cp. Eze_44:19.
without the camp] to the place whither parts of the Sin-Offering for ‘the anointed priest’ and for ‘the whole congregation’ were taken (Lev_4:12; Lev_4:21).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) And he shall put off his garments.—That is,…
(11) And he shall put off his garments.—That is, the priest shall change the sacred robes in which he ministered at the altar; for other garments, though less holy, were not common, since the removing of the ashes was still a sacerdotal function. The holy garments were deposited in the cells within the precincts of the sanctuary, till they were required again for the altar service (Eze_44:19; Ezr_2:6; Ezr_2:9; Neh_7:70). Great care was taken that the place to which the ashes were removed was well sheltered, so that the wind should not blow them about. The priest was not allowed to scatter them, but had to deposit them gently. No stranger was permitted to gather them, or to make profit by the ashes.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 6:11 Most natural environments qualified as a place that…
6:11 Most natural environments qualified as a place that is ceremonially clean.
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