What Does Exodus 29:14 Mean in the King James?

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.

Exodus 29:14 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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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.

“sin offering” 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.

Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto 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 · KJVThe whole bullock is carried outside the camp and burned, making the boundary and disposal explicit.

And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

Leviticus 16:27 · KJVThe remains named here, skin, flesh, and dung, are burned outside the camp in the same pattern.

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 · KJVThe verse places blood inside the sanctuary and the bodies outside the camp, preserving the same spatial pattern.

THE THREAD

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 · KJV

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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