Leviticus 4:21

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“Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.”

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BSBPD

“Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock: it is the sin-offering for the assembly.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and he hath brought out the bullock unto the outside of the camp, and hath burned it as he hath burned the first bullock; it <FI>is<Fi> a sin-offering of the assembly.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 4:21 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 29:14But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
  2. Leviticus 4:11But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
  3. Leviticus 6:11Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.
  4. Leviticus 6:23Every grain offering for a priest shall be burned completely; it is not to be eaten.”
  5. Leviticus 8:17But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.
  6. Leviticus 16:15Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.
  7. Leviticus 16:21Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.
  8. 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.
  9. 2 Chronicles 29:21They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
  10. Ezra 8:35Then the exiles who had returned from captivity sacrificed burnt offerings to the God of Israel: 12 bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs, and a sin offering of 12 male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.
  11. Ezekiel 45:22On that day the prince shall provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.
  12. Matthew 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
  13. 2 Corinthians 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
  14. 1 Timothy 2:5For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

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