Hebrews 13:11

Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.

Majority Standard Bible

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 who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

12And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:5Then the anointed priest shall take some of the bull’s blood and bring it into the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4:16Then the anointed priest is to bring some of the bull’s blood into the Tent of Meeting,

Leviticus 6:30But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it must be burned.

Leviticus 9:11But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.

Leviticus 16:27The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.

Ezekiel 43:21Then you are to take away the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the appointed part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.

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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