Leviticus 4:16
And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock’s blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
Leviticus 4:16 in other translations
| BSB | Then the anointed priest is to bring some of the bull’s blood into the Tent of Meeting, |
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| WEB | The anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting. |
| ASV | And the anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bullock to the tent of meeting: |
| YLT | ‘And the priest who is anointed hath brought in of the blood of the bullock unto the tent of meeting, |
| DARBY | And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood into the tent of meeting; |
| BBE | And the priest is to take some of its blood to the Tent of meeting; |
| Webster | And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation: |
What does Leviticus 4:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 4:13-21
13-21. if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance--In consequence of some culpable neglect or misapprehension of the law, the people might contract national guilt, and then national expiation was necessary. The same sacrifice was to be offered as in the former case, but with this difference in the ceremonial, that the elders or heads of the tribes, as representing the people and being the principal…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 4:13-21
If the leaders of the people, through mistake, caused them to err, an offering must be brought, that wrath might not come upon the whole congregation. When sacrifices were offered, the persons, on whose behalf they were devoted, were to lay their hands on the heads of the victims, and to confess their sins. The elders were to do so, when the sacrifices were offered for the whole congregation. The load of sin was…
Leviticus 4:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Leviticus 4:16
- Leviticus 4:5-12
And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock’s blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation: And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the Lord, before the vail of the sanctuary. And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 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, …
- Hebrews 9:12-14
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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Context
- Leviticus 4:15
And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the Lord: and the bullock shall be killed before the Lord.
- Leviticus 4:16
And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock’s blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
- Leviticus 4:17
And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, even before the vail.
Leviticus 4:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y el sacerdote ungido meterá de la sangre del becerro en el tabernáculo del testimonio: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le sacrificateur oint apportera du sang du taureau dans la tente d’assignation; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und der gesalbte Priester bringe von dem Blute des Farren in das Zelt der Zusammenkunft, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | inferet sacerdos, qui unctus est, de sanguine ejus in tabernaculum testimonii, |