Leviticus 6:10

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Contextual Overview

⁸Again the LORD said to Moses, ⁹"Command Aaron and his sons, 'This is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth of the altar all night, until morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar. ¹⁰And the priest shall put on his linen robe and linen undergarments, and he shall remove from the altar the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed and place them beside it.¹¹Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place. ¹²The fire on the altar shall be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest is to add wood to the fire, arrange the burnt offering on it, and burn the fat portions of the peace offerings on it. ¹³The fire must be kept burning on the altar continually; it must not be extinguished.

Bible Verse Review
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linen garment: Leviticus 16:4, Exodus 28:39-43, Exodus 39:27-29, Ezekiel 44:17, Ezekiel 44:18, Revelation 7:13, Revelation 19:8, Revelation 19:14

consumed: Leviticus 1:9, Leviticus 1:13, Leviticus 1:17, Numbers 16:21, Numbers 16:35, Psalms 20:3, *marg. Psalms 37:20

beside: Leviticus 1:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:42 - breeches Leviticus 4:12 - the ashes Ezekiel 44:19 - they shall put

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the priest shall put on his linen garment,.... "His measure" q, as the word signifies, a garment that was just the measure of his body, and exactly fitted it; it was a sort of a shirt, which he wore next his body, and reached down to his feet; and in this he always officiated, and was an emblem of the purity and holiness of Christ our high priest, who was without sin, and so a fit person to take away the sin of others, by offering up himself without spot to God:

and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh; to cover his nakedness; that indecency might be prevented, and that he might not be exposed to ridicule; and though these two garments are only mentioned, yet the wise men say the word "put on" includes the bonnet and the girdle; for the removing of the ashes from the altar, which is the thing he was to be thus clothed to do, was done in the four garments, though the Scripture mentions but two r:

and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed, with the burnt offering on the altar; this was the first thing the priests did in a morning, and which in later times they cast lots for, and the first lot was for this service, and which was performed very early s;

"every day they cleansed or swept the altar, at cockcrowing or near it, whether before or after, and on the day of atonement at midnight, and at the feasts from the time of the first watch:''

and he shall put them beside the altar: without, at the corner of the altar, as Aben Ezra, on the east side of it; so says Jarchi, the priest takes a full censer of the innermost consumptions (that is, of the innermost parts of the sacrifice reduced to ashes), and puts them in the east of the rise of the altar; or, as by another t expressed, he takes the ashes in a censer, more or less, and lays them down at the east of the rise of the altar, and there leaves them, and this is the beginning of the morning service: and we are told by another writer u, that there was a place called the house of ashes, and it was at the east of the rise of the altar, at a distance from the foot of it ten cubits and three hands' breadth; where the priest, before they began to sacrifice, laid the ashes of the sacrifices, and of the candlestick, and of the altar of incense, and of the offering of the fowl that were cast out.

q מדו, "est" מד "proprie vestis commensurata corpori", Munster; so Jarchi. r Maimon. in Misn. Tamid, c. 5. sect. 3. s Misn. Yoma, c. 1. sect. 8. t Bartenora in ib. u Jacob. Jud. Leo. Tabnitid Hecal, No. 90. apud Wagenseil. Sotah, p. 426.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ashes ... with the burnt-offering - Rather, the ashes to which the fire hath consumed the burnt-offering.