Hebrews 13:11

After the high priest brings into the most holy place the blood of animals that they have sacrificed to atone for sins, the bodies of those animals are burned {they burn the bodies of those animals} outside the camp.

Translation for Translators

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 Jesus [MTY]. All those who continue to observe the Jewish rituals [MTY] of sacrifice have no right to obtain the benefits of his sacrifice [MET].

12Similarly, Jesus suffered and died outside the gate of Jerusalem in order that he might make us, his people, holy by offering his own blood as a sacrifice to atone for our sins.

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:5Then the Supreme Priest must take some of that blood into the Sacred Tent.

Leviticus 4:16Then the Supreme [MTY] Priest must take some of that blood into the Sacred Tent.

Leviticus 6:30But if the blood of those sin offerings is brought into the Sacred Tent to enable the people to be forgiven for having sinned, the meat of those animals must not be eaten. The meat must be completely burned.”

Leviticus 9:11Then Aaron burned the rest of the meat and the hide/skin outside the camp.

Leviticus 16:27The carcasses of the bull and the goat that were slaughtered to be an offering/sacrifice for the people’s sins, whose blood was taken inside the Very Holy Place to enable Yahweh to forgive the Israeli people, must be carried outside the camp and burned. The hides/skins of the animals, the inner organs, and the dung must also be burned.

Ezekiel 43:21You must burn that bull outside the temple in the part of the temple area that I have designated for that.

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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