Hebrews 13:11

For the bodies of the beasts whose blood is taken into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the circle of the tents.

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In The King James Version

For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

In Context

10We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.

12For this reason Jesus was put to death outside the walls, so that he might make the people holy by his blood.

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:5And the chief priest is to take some of its blood and take it to the Tent of meeting;

Leviticus 4:16And the priest is to take some of its blood to the Tent of meeting;

Leviticus 9:11And the flesh and the skin were burned with fire outside the tent-circle;

Leviticus 16:27And the ox of the sin-offering and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was taken in to make the holy place free from sin, are to be taken away outside the tent-circle and their skins and their flesh and their waste are to be burned with fire.

Ezekiel 43:21And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 13:2-18

Various Duties. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee,… Read the whole commentary →

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