What Does Exodus 29:14 Mean?
But the flesh of the young bull, and his skin, and his dung, you burn with fire outside the camp. It is an offering for falling short.
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King James wording
King James Version
But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.THE KEY
The Hebrew word behind “sin offering” also names the missing itself, while the verse carries the animal’s remains outside the camp to burn.
THE MEANING
The verse places the bull’s flesh, skin, and dung beyond the camp, where they burn. It calls this an offering for the missing, joining that name to a concrete act at the camp’s boundary. The passage keeps the disposal material and explicit.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatta't
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss, go wrong, or sin.
“offering for falling short” in this verse is chatta't. חַטָּאת names both the missing and the offering connected to it, keeping them in one word-family. Here that shared name stands beside an unsparing physical action: flesh, skin, and dung burn outside the camp.
ALSO GROWS
chata': To miss; to sin.
חָטָא
The verb keeps the offering’s name linked to the act of missing.
chet: A miss, sin, or offense.
חֵטְא
This noun names the condition from the same root that names the offering.
THE PATTERN
The offering for the missing leaves the camp’s center and is burned beyond its boundary.
And he carries the whole young bull out beyond the camp to a clean place, to the pouring place of the ashes, and he burns it on wood with fire, and it is burned upon the pouring place of the ashes.The bullock and the goat, the offerings for falling short, whose blood is brought within to make a covering in the set-apart place, one carries outside the camp. And they burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.For the bodies of those living ones, whose blood is carried into the set-apart places by the high priest for falling short, are burned outside the camp.THE THREAD
For the bodies of those living ones, whose blood is carried into the set-apart places by the high priest for falling short, are burned outside the camp.Hebrews restates the same ritual architecture: blood enters the sanctuary while the animals’ bodies burn outside the camp. It brings the verse’s geography into focus as part of a movement between center and boundary.
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