Leviticus 6:11

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

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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put off: Leviticus 16:23, Leviticus 16:24, Ezekiel 44:19

without: Leviticus 4:12, Leviticus 4:21, Leviticus 14:40, Leviticus 14:41, Leviticus 16:27, Hebrews 13:11-13

Reciprocal: Leviticus 1:16 - by the place

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."

Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

2 Chronicles 34:27
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,' declares the LORD.

Psalms 11:5
The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

Psalms 55:9
O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Psalms 140:11
May no slanderer be established in the land. May calamity hunt down the man of violence.

Isaiah 60:18
No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall put off his garments,.... Those before mentioned, he is said to put on:

and put on other garments; not common garments or lay-habits, what the priests wore when they were not on duty; for, as Ben Gersom says, these were priestly garments, though meaner than the first, or those that were put off: and so Jarchi says, they were worse than they were: it seems as if they were such that were spotted and dirty, and threadbare, almost worn out, and only fit for such sort of work as to carry out ashes: and so Maimonides w observes, that these other garments are not to be understood of common garments; but of such that are meaner in value and esteem, for both are holy garments; and, indeed, nothing belonging to the priestly office was to be performed but with the priestly garments, and they were only to be worn by the priests while in service:

and carry forth the ashes; when these, gathered on a heap, were become large, as Jarchi says, and there was no room for the pile of wood, they carried them out from thence; and this, he observes, was not obligatory every day, but the taking of them up, as in the preceding verse Leviticus 6:10, they were bound to every day: and these they carried

without the camp, unto a clean place; for though they were ashes, yet being ashes of holy things, were not to be laid in an unclean place, or where unclean things were: as the burnt offering was a type of Christ in his sufferings and death, enduring the fire of divine wrath in the room and stead of his people; so the carrying forth the ashes of the burnt offering, and laying them in a clean place, may denote the burial of the body of Christ without the city of Jerusalem, wrapped in a clean linen cloth and laid in a new tomb, wherein no man had been laid, Matthew 27:59.

w In Misn. Tamid, c. 5. sect. 3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 6:11. And put on other garments — The priests approached the altar in their holiest garments; when carrying the ashes, c., from the altar, they put on other garments, the holy garments being only used in the holy place.

Clean place. — A place where no dead carcasses, dung, or filth of any kind was laid for the ashes were holy, as being the remains of the offerings made by fire unto the Lord.