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the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that <i>is</i> upon the inwards,</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/leviticus/4.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/leviticus/4.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/leviticus/4.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/leviticus/4.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/leviticus/4.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/leviticus/4.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/leviticus/4.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/4.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/leviticus/4.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/leviticus/4.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/leviticus/4.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/leviticus/4.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/leviticus/4.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/leviticus/4.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/leviticus/4.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/leviticus/4.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/leviticus/6-13.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/leviticus/4.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/leviticus/4.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/leviticus/4.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/leviticus/4.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/leviticus/4.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/leviticus/4.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/leviticus/4.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/leviticus/4.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/leviticus/4.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/leviticus/4.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/leviticus/4.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/leviticus/4.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/leviticus/4.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/leviticus/4.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/leviticus/4.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/leviticus/4.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) <span class= "bld">And he shall take off from it all the fat.</span>—That is, the best or choicest part. (See <a href="/leviticus/3-3.htm" title="And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,">Leviticus 3:3</a>.) At the time of Christ the sin offering was cut open, the fat and inwards were taken out, put into a vessel, salted, stewed on the fire, and burnt upon the altar as a sweet savour unto the Lord.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/leviticus/4.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>4:1-12 Burnt-offerings, meat-offerings, and peace-offerings, had been offered before the giving of the law upon mount Sinai; and in these the patriarchs had respect to sin, to make atonement for it. But the Jews were now put into a way of making atonement for sin, more particularly by sacrifice, as a shadow of good things to come; yet the substance is Christ, and that one offering of himself, by which he put away sin. The sins for which the sin-offerings were appointed are supposed to be open acts. They are supposed to be sins of commission, things which ought not to have been done. Omissions are sins, and must come into judgment: yet what had been omitted at one time, might be done at another; but a sin committed was past recall. They are supposed to be sins committed through ignorance. The law begins with the case of the anointed priest. It is evident that God never had any infallible priest in his church upon earth, when even the high priest was liable to fall into sins of ignorance. All pretensions to act without error are sure marks of Antichrist. The beast was to be carried without the camp, and there burned to ashes. This was a sign of the duty of repentance, which is the putting away sin as a detestable thing, which our soul hates. The sin-offering is called sin. What they did to that, we must do to our sins; the body of sin must be destroyed, Ro 6:6. The apostle applies the carrying this sacrifice without the camp to Christ, Heb 13:11-13.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/leviticus/4.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Pour - All the blood that was left after the sprinkling and the smearing should be disposed of in such a manner as to suit the decorum of divine service. It had no sacrificial significance. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/leviticus/4.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>Le 4:3-35. Sin Offering for the Priest.<p>3. If the priest that is anointed do sin—that is, the high priest, in whom, considering his character as typical mediator, and his exalted office, the people had the deepest interest; and whose transgression of any part of the divine law, therefore, whether done unconsciously or heedlessly, was a very serious offense, both as regarded himself individually, and the influence of his example. He is the person principally meant, though the common order of the priesthood was included.<p>according to the sin of the people—that is, bring guilt on the people. He was to take a young bullock (the age and sex being expressly mentioned), and having killed it according to the form prescribed for the burnt offerings, he was to take it into the holy place and sprinkle the atoning blood seven times before the veil, and tip with the crimson fluid the horns of the golden altar of incense, on his way to the court of the priests,—a solemn ceremonial appointed only for very grave and heinous offenses, and which betokened that his sin, though done in ignorance, had vitiated all his services; nor could any official duty he engaged in be beneficial either to himself or the people, unless it were atoned for by blood.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/leviticus/4.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/leviticus/4.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering,.... When the priest had killed the bullock, and sprinkled and poured the blood, as before commanded; he then cut up the bullock, and took out its inwards, and put them in a vessel, and salted them, and strowed them on the fires (z), and burnt them, and the fat of them, as he did with the sacrifice of the peace offerings; so that what is here said, and in the two next verses <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/4-9.htm">Leviticus 4:9</a>, is the same with what is ordered concerning them in <a href="/leviticus/3-3.htm">Leviticus 3:3</a>; see Gill on <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/3-3.htm">Leviticus 3:3</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/3-4.htm">Leviticus 3:4</a>, <a href="/leviticus/3-5.htm">Leviticus 3:5</a>. Jarchi and Gersom both observe that they agree, that as one brings peace into the world, so does the other. <p>(z) Maimon. ib. (Maasch Hakorbanot) c. 7. sect. 2.<a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/leviticus/4.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/leviticus/4.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">8–12</span>. Cp. 19–21. The fat parts (the same as those reserved for the altar in the Peace-Offering) are then removed from the bullock, and burnt upon the altar of Burnt-Offering. All the remainder (<span class="ital">even the whole bullock shall he carry forth</span> in <span class="ital"><a href="/leviticus/4-12.htm" title="Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.">Leviticus 4:12</a></span> is traditionally interpreted as directing that the carcase should be carried out whole, and afterwards divided into pieces) shall be taken to a clean place (i.e. one free from ritual impurity) where the ashes (i.e. the ashes to which the Burnt-Offering, and other sacrifices burnt on the altar have been reduced by burning) are poured out (cp. <a href="/leviticus/1-16.htm" title="And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:">Leviticus 1:16</a> and <a href="/leviticus/6-11.htm" title="And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp to a clean place.">Leviticus 6:11</a>) and there burnt on wood with fire (cp. <a href="/context/hebrews/13-11.htm" title="For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp....">Hebrews 13:11-12</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The traditional view of the sacrifice prescribed in <a href="/context/leviticus/4-3.htm" title="If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bullock without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering....">Leviticus 4:3-12</a> is that it was necessary whenever the high priest had committed any offence in the discharge of his official duty as representative of the nation. In his ordinary life the high priest stands in the same relation to God’s law as any other member of the community, and may offer the same sacrifice as the ordinary Israelite. According to some commentators the ‘sin’ of <span class="ital"><a href="/leviticus/4-3.htm" title="If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bullock without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.">Leviticus 4:3</a></span> refers to any offence whatever of the high priest committed in ignorance. The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews points to the ideal high priest who is undefiled, separate from sinners (<a href="/leviticus/7-26.htm" title="Moreover you shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.">Leviticus 7:26</a>), as distinguished from the high priest under the law, who, by reason of his infirmity, must offer sacrifice for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people (<a href="/leviticus/7-27.htm" title="Whatever soul it be that eats any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.">Leviticus 7:27</a>, <a href="/leviticus/5-3.htm" title="Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled with, and it be hid from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.">Leviticus 5:3</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Leviticus 4:8<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/leviticus/4.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>The priest was to lift off "all the fat" from the sacrificial animal, i.e., the same fat portions as in the peace-offering (<a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/3-3.htm">Leviticus 3:3-4</a>, כּל־חלב is the subject to יוּרם in <a href="/leviticus/3-10.htm">Leviticus 3:10</a>), and burn it upon the altar of burnt-offering.<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/leviticus/4-8.htm">Leviticus 4:8 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../leviticus/4-7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 4:7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 4:7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../leviticus/4-9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 4:9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 4:9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>