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Leviticus 4:18-20
New English Translation
Leviticus 4:18-20
New English Translation
18 He must put some of the blood on the horns of the altar[a] which is before the Lord in the Meeting Tent, and all the rest of the blood he must pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.
19 “‘Then the priest[b] must take all its fat[c] and offer the fat[d] up in smoke on the altar. 20 He must do with the rest of the bull just as he did with the bull of the sin offering; this is what he must do with it.[e] So the priest will make atonement[f] on their behalf and they will be forgiven.[g]
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- Leviticus 4:18 sn See v. 7, where this altar is identified as the altar of fragrant incense.
- Leviticus 4:19 tn Heb “Then he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. Based on the parallel statement in 4:10 and 4:31, it is the priest who performs this action rather than the person who brought the offering.
- Leviticus 4:19 tn Heb “take up all its fat from it”; NASB “shall remove all its fat from it.”sn See the full discussion of the fat regulations in Lev 4:8-9 above.
- Leviticus 4:19 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the fat) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Only the fat is meant here, since the “rest” of the bull is mentioned in v. 21.
- Leviticus 4:20 sn Cf. Lev 4:11-12 above for the disposition of “the [rest of] the bull.”
- Leviticus 4:20 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).
- Leviticus 4:20 tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to them” or “it shall be forgiven to them.”
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