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Leviticus 4:19-21
New English Translation
Leviticus 4:19-21
New English Translation
19 “‘Then the priest[a] must take all its fat[b] and offer the fat[c] 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.[d] So the priest will make atonement[e] on their behalf and they will be forgiven.[f] 21 He[g] must bring the rest of the bull outside the camp[h] and burn it just as he burned the first bull—it is the sin offering of the assembly.
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- 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.”
- Leviticus 4:21 sn See the note on the word “slaughter” in v. 15.
- Leviticus 4:21 tn Heb “And he shall bring out the bull to from outside to the camp.”
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