Leviticus 6 · Verse 26

Leviticus 6:26

The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus 6:26, King James Version

Leviticus 6:26 in other translations

BSBThe priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
WEBThe priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
ASVThe priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.
YLT‘The priest who is making atonement with it doth eat it, in the holy place it is eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting;
DARBYThe priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.
BBEThe priest by whom it is offered for sin, is to take it for his food in a holy place, in the open space of the Tent of meeting.
WebsterThe priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.

What does Leviticus 6:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 6:25-28

Le 6:21-30. The Law of the Sin Offering. 25-28. This is the law of the sin offering--It was slain, and the fat and inwards, after being washed and salted, were burnt upon the altar. But the rest of the carcass belonged to the officiating priest. He and his family might feast upon it--only, however, within the precincts of the tabernacle; and none else were allowed to partake of it but the members of a priestly…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 26 The priest - shall eat it - From the expostulation of Moses with Aaron, Lev 10:17, we learn that the priest, by eating the sin-offering of the people, was considered as bearing their sin, and typically removing it from them: and besides, this was a part of their maintenance, or what the Scripture calls their inheritance; see Eze 44:27-30. This was afterwards greatly abused; for improper persons endeavored to get into the priest's office merely that they might get a secular provision, which is a horrible profanity in the sight of God. See 1Sam 2:36; Jer 23:12; Eze 34:2-4; and Hos 4:8.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 6:24-30

The blood of the sin-offering was to be washed out of the clothes on which it should happen to be sprinkled, which signified the regard we ought to have to the blood of Christ, not counting it a common thing. The vessel in which the flesh of the sin-offering was boiled must be broken, if it were an earthen one; but if a brazen one, well washed. This showed that the defilement was not wholly taken away by the…

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Leviticus 6:26 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַכֹּהֵ֛ןha.ko.Henthe priestH3548
הַֽמְחַטֵּ֥אham.cha.Te'who makes a sin offeringH2398
אֹתָ֖הּ'o.Tah<obj.> itH853
יֹאכֲלֶ֑נָּהyo.kha.Le.nahhe will eat itH398
בְּמָק֤וֹםbe.ma.Komin a placeH4725
קָדֹשׁ֙ka.DoshholyH6918
תֵּֽאָכֵ֔לte.'a.Khelit will be eatenH398
בַּחֲצַ֖רba.cha.Tzarin [the] courtyard ofH2691
אֹ֥הֶל'O.hel[the] tent ofH168
מוֹעֵֽד\׃mo.'EdmeetingH4150

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Leviticus 6:26

  • Leviticus 10:17-18

    Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord? Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.

  • Ezekiel 44:28-29

    And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession. They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

  • Hosea 4:8

    They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

  • Ezekiel 42:13

    Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the Lord shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

  • Ezekiel 46:20

    Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.

  • Exodus 38:9-19

    And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits: Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. …

  • Numbers 18:9-10

    This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.

  • Leviticus 6:16

    And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.

  • Exodus 27:9-18

    And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. …

  • Exodus 40:33

    And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

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priest.
10:17,18; Nu 18:9,10; Eze 44:28,29; 46:20; Ho 4:8
in the holy.
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in the court.
Ex 27:9-18; 38:9-19; 40:33; Eze 42:13

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Context

  • Leviticus 6:25

    Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord: it is most holy.

  • Leviticus 6:26

    The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Leviticus 6:27

    Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.

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Leviticus 6:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		El sacerdote que la ofreciere por expiación, la comerá: en el lugar santo será comida, en el atrio del tabernáculo del testimonio.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Sacerdos, qui offert, comedet eam in loco sancto, in atrio tabernaculi.