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Hebrew Names Version

Leviticus 1:6

He shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Priest;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Moses;   Sacrifice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Offerings;   Priests;   Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Offerings and Sacrifices;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Expiation, Propitiation;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Priests and Levites;   Propitiation;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Flay, to;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Offerings;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Priesthood, the;   Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sacrifice;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Burnt-offerings;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ashes;   Daniel ben Moses Al-ḳumisi;  

Parallel Translations

King James Version
And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.
Lexham English Bible
Then he must remove the skin of the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.
New Century Version
After that he will skin the animal and cut it into pieces.
New English Translation
Next, the one presenting the offering must skin the burnt offering and cut it into parts,
Amplified Bible
'Then he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.
New American Standard Bible
'He shall then skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shall he fley the burnt offering, and cut it in pieces.
Legacy Standard Bible
And he shall then skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.
Contemporary English Version
Skin the bull and cut it up,
Complete Jewish Bible
He is to skin the burnt offering and cut it in pieces.
Darby Translation
And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it up into its pieces.
Easy-to-Read Version
You must remove the skin from that animal and then cut the animal into pieces.
English Standard Version
Then he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces,
George Lamsa Translation
And he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.
Good News Translation
Then you shall skin the animal and cut it up,
Christian Standard Bible®
Then he is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.
Literal Translation
And he shall skin the burnt offering, and shall cut it into pieces.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the skynne shalbe flayne from of the burntofferynge, and it shalbe hewen in peces.
American Standard Version
And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces.
Bible in Basic English
And the burned offering is to be skinned and cut up into its parts.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And then shall he flay the burnt offeryng, and hewe hym in peeces.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces.
King James Version (1611)
And hee shall slay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And having flayed the whole burnt-offering, they shall divide it by its limbs.
English Revised Version
And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into its pieces.
Berean Standard Bible
Next, he is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne the skyn of the sacrifice is drawun awei, thei schulen kitte the membris in to gobetis;
Young's Literal Translation
`And he hath stripped the burnt-offering, and hath cut it into its pieces;
Update Bible Version
And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces,
World English Bible
He shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.
New King James Version
And he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.
New Living Translation
Then skin the animal and cut it into pieces.
New Life Bible
He will skin the burnt gift and cut it into pieces.
New Revised Standard
The burnt offering shall be flayed and cut up into its parts.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall he flay the ascending-sacrifice, - and cut it up into its pieces.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they have flayed the victim, they shall cut the joints into pieces:
Revised Standard Version
And he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'He shall then skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.

Contextual Overview

3 "'If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD. 4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5 He shall kill the bull before the LORD. Aharon's sons, the Kohanim, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 6 He shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces. 7 The sons of Aharon the Kohen shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire; 8 and Aharon's sons, the Kohanim, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar; 9 but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The Kohen shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 7:8, Genesis 3:21

Reciprocal: Leviticus 1:12 - General Leviticus 2:6 - General Leviticus 3:12 - a goat 1 Kings 18:33 - he put 2 Chronicles 35:11 - the priests Ezekiel 40:43 - upon

Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:6
God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
Genesis 1:7
God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.
Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:11
God said, "Let the eretz put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the eretz," and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
The eretz brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13
There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Genesis 1:14
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
Genesis 1:20
God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the eretz in the open expanse of sky."
Genesis 1:22
God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the eretz."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall flay the burnt offering,.... Take off its skin; this was the only part of it that was not burnt, and was the property of the priest, Leviticus 7:8 but who this was done by is not so manifest, since it is in the singular number "he", and seems to be the bringer of the offering; for Aaron's sons, the priests that sprinkled the blood, are spoken of plurally; and agreeably, Gersom observes, that the flaying of the burnt offering and cutting it in pieces were lawful to be done by a stranger; but Aben Ezra interprets "he" of the priest; and the Septuagint and Samaritan versions read in the plural number, "they shall flay", c. and this was the work of the priests, and who were sometimes helped in it by their brethren, the Levites,

2 Chronicles 29:34 and as this follows upon the sprinkling of the blood, it was never done till that was the rule is, they do not flay them (the sacrifices) until the blood is sprinkled, except the sin offerings, which are burnt, for they do not flay them at all p. The flaying of the burnt offering may denote the very great sufferings of Christ, when he was stripped of his clothes, and his back was given to the smiters, and his cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; and the skin of the sacrifice, which belonged to the priest, may be an emblem of the righteousness of Christ, and which also was signified by the coats of skins the Lord God made for Adam and Eve, Genesis 3:21 that robe of righteousness, and garments of salvation, which all that are made kings and priests to God are clothed with:

and cut it into his pieces; which was done while he was flaying it, and after this manner, as Maimonides relates q, he flays until he comes to the breast, and then he cuts off the head, then its legs, and finishes the flaying; then he rends the heart, and brings out its blood; then he cuts off the hands, and goes to the right foot, and cuts off that, and after that he cuts down the beast until its bowels are discovered; he takes the knife and separates the lights from the liver, and the caul of the liver from the liver, and does not remove the liver out of its place; and he goes up to the right side, and cuts and descends to the backbone, and he does not go to the backbone until he comes to the two tender ribs; he comes to the neck, and leaves in it two ribs here and two ribs there; he cuts it and comes to the left side, and leaves in it two tender ribs above and two tender ribs below; then he comes to the point of the backbone, he cuts it, and gives it and the tail, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with it; he takes the left foot and gives it to another; and according to this order they flay and cut in pieces the burnt offering of the cattle; and these are the pieces spoken of in the law, Leviticus 1:6 some apply this to the ministers of the Gospel, rightly dividing the word of God, and to the effect the word has in dividing asunder soul and spirit; but it is best to apply it to Christ, either to the evidence given of him in the Gospel, in which he is clearly set forth in his person, natures, and offices, and in all the parts and branches thereof; where every thing is naked and open to view, as the creature was when thus cut up; or rather to his sufferings, which he endured in every part of his body, from head to foot.

p Hilchot Korbanot, c. 5. sect. 18. q Ib. c. 6. sect. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Vid. Misnah Tamid, c. 4. sect. 2, 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he shall flay - The sacrificer, or his assistant, had to skin and cut up the victim. The hide was the gratuity of the officiating priest. Leviticus 7:8.

His pieces - That is, its proper pieces, the parts into which it was usual for a sacrificed animal to be divided.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 1:6. He shall flay — Probably meaning the person who brought the sacrifice, who, according to some of the rabbins, killed, flayed, cut up, and washed the sacrifice, and then presented the parts and the blood to the priest, that he might burn the one, and sprinkle the other upon the altar. But it is certain that the priests also, and the Levites, flayed the victims, and the priest had the skin to himself; see Leviticus 7:8, and 2 Chronicles 29:34. The red heifer alone was not flayed, but the whole body, with the skin, &c., consumed with fire. See Numbers 19:5.


 
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