The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
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The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
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The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.
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(6-19) The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it; in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 6:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 10:17-18 “Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh? Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”
- Ezekiel 44:28-29 “ ‘They shall have an inheritance. I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession. They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
- Ezekiel 42:13 Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
- Ezekiel 46:20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.”
- Hosea 4:8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
- Exodus 27:9-18 “You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side. Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. Likewise for the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four. All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of bronze. The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze.
- Exodus 38:9-19 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits; their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. For the east side eastward fifty cubits, the hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three; and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen. The sockets for the pillars were of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. Their capitals were overlaid with silver. All the pillars of the court had silver bands. The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height along the width was five cubits, like the hangings of the court. Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 40:33 He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
- Leviticus 6:16 That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 18:9-10 This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 6:26 The priest that offereth it for sin…
Lev 6:26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Ver. 26. Shall eat it.] Except in that case, Lev 6:30.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain For sin; for the sins of the rulers, or…
For sin; for the sins of the rulers, or of the people, or any of them, but not for the sins of the priests; for then its blood was brought into the tabernacle, and therefore it might not be eaten.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy,....…
Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy,.... None but holy persons, such as were devoted to holy services, even the priests and their sons, might touch and eat of the flesh of the sin offering: all that did so were sacred persons; and even what were used in eating it, dishes and knives, were to be put to no other use, not to any common service, or for anything but holy things; which was done to keep up a veneration for the sacrifices, and especially for the great sacrifice they typified, the sacrifice of Christ, whose flesh is meat indeed; and whoever eats of that by faith dwells in Christ, and Christ dwells in him, Joh 6:55,
and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment; the garment of the priest that slays and offers it:
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thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place; it was not to be carried out of the tabernacle, and washed elsewhere, but in the sanctuary; either at the laver, where the priests washed their hands and feet, or in some room in the court for that purpose. This was done to preserve an esteem and value for the blood of the sacrifice, as typical of the precious blood of Christ.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain For sin - For the sins of the rulers,…
For sin - For the sins of the rulers, or of the people, or any of them, but not for the sins of the priests; for then its blood was brought into the tabernacle, and therefore it might not be eaten.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 26. The priest - shall eat it] From…
Verse 26. The priest - shall eat it] From the expostulation of Moses with Aaron, Le 10:17, we learn that the priest, by eating the sin-offering of the people, was considered as bearing their sin, and typically removing it from them: and besides, this was a part of their maintenance, or what the Scripture calls their inheritance; see Eze 44:27-30. This was afterwards greatly abused; for improper persons endeavoured to get into the priest's office merely that they might get a secular provision, which is a horrible profanity in the sight of God. See 1Sa 2:36; Jer 23:12; Eze 34:2-4; and Ho 4:8.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 6:26. The priest that offereth it for sin…
Lev 6:26. The priest that offereth it for sin — For the sins of the rulers, or of the people, or any of them, but not for the sins of the priests; for then its blood was brought into the tabernacle, and therefore it might not be eaten.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Tabernacle. No part shall be given to those who…
Tabernacle. No part shall be given to those who are not of the sacerdotal race. (Calmet)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 26. The priest… shall eat — God required the…
26. The priest… shall eat — God required the priests to eat the flesh in order that they might “bear (away, or expiate) the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them.” Lev_10:17. Eating symbolizes the complete reception of any thing. Jer_15:16; Joh_6:51. Hence the priests, as God’s representatives, by their incorporation with the sin offering gave assurance of the completeness of the reconciliation, and demonstrated that the sacrifice which entirely removes guilt, is converted even into the nutriment of the holiest life. Jesus is both our propitiation and our bread of life.
That offereth it for sin —
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Or expiates sin by it. The word expiates sin, in the Hebrew, is from the same radicals with sin offering. See 2Co_5:21.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. What remains after the sacrifice has been offered…
26. What remains after the sacrifice has been offered (except in the cases specified in Lev_6:30 and Lev_4:3-21) is ‘most holy’—to be eaten in the same place and manner as the Meal-Offering (Lev_6:16-18).
in a holy place] Here and in Lev_6:16 further designated as ‘the court of the tent of meeting’ and prescribed for the Guilt-Offering in Lev_7:6. Cp. the command to eat the flesh of the ram of consecration at ‘the door of the tent of meeting’ (Exo_29:32). The remainder belongs to the priest who officiates, but any male among the priests may join in eating it (Lev_6:29).
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The passages which assign a portion of the sacrifice to the officiating priest are Lev_6:26 a, Lev_7:7-10; Lev_7:33. May these be parts of a law of sacrifice which has been combined with rest of Lev_6:8 to Lev_7:38? If on a particular occasion the priestly dues of a sacrifice fell to any one priest, he might invite his fellow priests to share in the meal, and the custom of eating these portions of the sacrifice together would be embodied in a law which asserted the right of all priests to partake of the sacrificial meal.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) The priest that offereth it for sin.—Rather, the…
(26) The priest that offereth it for sin.—Rather, the priest that offereth it for expiation, or, the priest that expiateth sin by it. That is, who makes atonement by the blood thereof. (See Lev_9:15.)
Shall eat it.—God gave the sin offering as food for the priests to bear the iniquity of the congregation, and to make atonement for them (Lev_10:17). It constituted a part of their livelihood (Eze_44:28-29). The officiating priest to whom fell this perquisite could invite not only his family but other priests and their sons to partake of it. Covetous priests abused this gift (Hos_4:8).
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In the holy place shall it be eaten.—That is, within the forecourt of the sanctuary. Eight of the offerings had to be eaten in the precincts of the sanctuary: (1) the flesh of the sin offering (Lev_4:26); (2); the flesh of the trespass offering (Lev_7:6); (3) the peace offering of the congregation (Lev_23:19-20); (4), the remainder of the omer (Lev_23:10-11); (5), of the meat offering of the Israelites (Leviticus 2, 3-10); (6), the two loaves (Leviticus 23, 20); (7), the shew-bread (Lev_24:9); and (8), the leper’s log of oil (Lev_14:10-13).
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