Exodus 29:14

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But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin-offering.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin-offering.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    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.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    But you shall burn the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung in the fire outside of the camp. It is a purification offering.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin-offering.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    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.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and it dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin-offering.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    But the flesh of the calfe, and his skin, and his doung shalt thou burne with fire without the hoste: it is a sinne offring.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    But the flesh of the calf and the hide and the dung, thou shalt burn abroad, without the camp, because it is for sin.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, thou dost burn with fire at the outside of the camp; it `is' a sin-offering.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, you burn with fire at the outside of the camp; it [is] a sin-offering.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    But as for the bull's flesh, as well as its skin and dung, you must burn it up outside the camp. It will be a sin offering.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    But you shall burn the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung in the fire outside of the camp. It is a purification offering.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou burn with fire outside the camp: it is a sin-offering.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    But the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a sin offering.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    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.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    But burn the bull's meat, its hide, and its excrement outside the camp—it is an offering for sin.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    But the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste parts are to be burned outside the circle of the tents, for it is a sin-offering.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp; it is a sin-offering.

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פִּרְשׁ֔וֹ
peresh
H6569
“dung · his”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6567

TWOT: 1835a

faecal matter, dung, offal
  1. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  2. בְּשַׂ֤ר bâsâr H1320 “flesh of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  3. הַפָּר֙ par H6499 “the · bullock” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  4. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  5. עֹר֣וֹ ʻôwr H5785 “skin · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  7. תִּשְׂרֹ֣ף sâraph H8313 “to burn” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  8. בָּאֵ֔שׁ ʼêsh H784 “in/at the · fire” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  9. מִח֖וּץ chûwts H2351 “from · outside” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה machăneh H4264 “to/for the · camp” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  11. חַטָּ֖את chaṭṭâʼâh H2403 “sin offering” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  12. הֽוּא hûwʼ H1931 “he” Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is פִּרְשׁ֔וֹ dung H6569 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • פִּרְשׁ֔וֹ dung H6569

Shared distinctive vocabulary

פִּרְשׁ֔וֹ dung H6569 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 8 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 3 particles

Verb forms

  • תִּשְׂרֹ֣ף Qal · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 29 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 19 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 29:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 4:11–12 The bull's skin, all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung,
  • Leviticus 4:21 He shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
  • Exodus 30:10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."
  • 2 Chronicles 29:24 and the priests killed them, and they made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded [that] the burnt offering and the sin-offering [should be made] for all Israel.
  • Ezra 8:35 The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
  • Hebrews 13:11–13 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.
  • Leviticus 4:3 if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to Yahweh for a sin offering.
  • Leviticus 4:25 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
  • Leviticus 4:29 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
  • Leviticus 4:32 "'If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish.
  • Leviticus 5:6 and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
  • Leviticus 5:8 He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.
  • Leviticus 6:25 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy.
  • Leviticus 8:17 But the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
  • Leviticus 9:2 and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before Yahweh.
  • Leviticus 16:3 "Herewith shall Aaron come into the sanctuary: with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
  • Leviticus 16:11 "Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.
  • Leviticus 16:27 The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried forth outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
  • Numbers 7:16 one male goat for a sin offering;

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Exodus 29:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֶת בְּשַׂ֤ר הַפָּר֙ וְאֶת עֹר֣וֹ וְאֶת פִּרְשׁ֔וֹ תִּשְׂרֹ֣ף בָּאֵ֔שׁ מִח֖וּץ לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה חַטָּ֖את הֽוּא

But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin-offering.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 29:14 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ δέ κρέας ὁ μόσχος καί ὁ δέρμα καί ὁ κόπρος κατακαίω πῦρ ἔξω ὁ παρεμβολή ἁμαρτία γάρ εἰμί

But the flesh of the calf, and his skin, and his dung, shall you burn with fire without the camp; for it is an offering on account of sin.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְיָת בִּסְרָא דְתוֹרָא וְיָת מַשְׁכֵהּ וְיָת אוּכְלֵהּ תּוֹקִיד בְּנוּרָא מִבָּרָא לְמַשְׁרִיתָא חַטָאתָא הוּא:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְיַת בִּשְרָא דְתוֹרָא וְיַת מוֹשְׁכֵיהּ וְיַת רֵיעֵיהּ תּוֹקַד בְּנוּרָא מִבָּרָא לְמַשְׁרִיתָא חַטָּאתָא הוּא

    And the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, thou shalt burn with fire without the camp; it is a sin offering.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 29:14 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 29:14 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.

Ver. 14. Without the camp.] {See Trapp on "Heb 13:12"} {See Trapp on "Heb 7:27"} {See Trapp on "Heb 7:28"}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

29:14 The remains represented what was unclean in human behavior. • sin offering: See Lev 4.

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Hebrew, sin, 2 Cor. 5:21.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 14. It is a sin-offering.] See Clarke on Ge 4:7; "Ge 13:13"; "Le 7:1", &c.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(14) The flesh . . . shalt thou burn . . . with out the camp.—Comp. Lev_4:11-12; Lev_4:21; Heb_13:11-13. This was the general rule with sin offerings. The whole animal was reckoned too impure for any portion of it to be suitable for human food.

His dung.—That which the intestines contained at the time of death.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

14. When a sin-offering was offered for priests, or for the whole community, including the priests, its flesh was burnt (cf. Lev_4:11 f., 21, Exo_9:11); when it was offered for laymen, the flesh was eaten by the priests (Lev_5:13; Lev_6:26). Though the priests are here treated as laity (see on v. 12), the flesh is to be burnt, because no proper priest is present to eat it (Di.).

dung] better, for distinction, offal,—viz. that removed from the animals offered in sacrifice: Lev_4:11; Lev_8:17; Lev_16:27, Num_19:5, Mal_2:3†.

a sin offering] see on Leviticus 4.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung,.... The several parts and members of him, head, legs, feet, &c. and the skin taken off of him, and the dung that comes from him. Aben Ezra observes, that the flesh comprehends the head and the pieces, and may be interpreted in a way of conjecture, that he washed it, and afterwards burnt it; all representing a whole Christ under all his painful sufferings, and the shame and reproach he underwent in them:

shalt thou burn with fire without the camp; so Christ, the antitype, suffered without the gates of Jerusalem a most painful and shameful death, despised and reproached by men, and the wrath of God like fire poured out upon him: the apostle seems to refer to this, Heb 13:11,

it is a sin offering; in order to make atonement for the sins of Aaron and his sons; for the law made men priests that had infirmity, and needed offerings and sacrifices for their own sins, which shows the imperfection of the Aaronic priesthood.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Sin of the high priest and people. In the other sin-offerings, this was not done. (Menochius)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

To wit, for the high priest, as is plain from the whole context, and therefore ought to be burnt by that law, Le 4. There was indeed a law, that that sin-offering whose blood was not carried into the tabernacle, which was the case here, should not be burnt, but eaten, Lev 6:30; 10:18. But that concerned the people, not the priests, who did not eat, but burn their own sin-offerings, Lev 4:3,12.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

14. A sin offering — On the nature of which see notes on Lev_4:3-12.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

The flesh shalt thou burn with fire without the camp. Such was the rule with sin-offerings generally. (Lev_4:11, Lev_4:12) The curse of sin which was on them, made them unfit for food and even unworthy of burial within the comp. On the symbolism of the burial, see Heb_13:11-13. His dung. That which the bowels contained at the time of death.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

תשרף באש SHALT THOU BURN WITH FIRE — We do not find that any “outside” sin offering was to be burnt except this (cf. Rashi on Leviticus 9:11).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Ramban (Nachmanides)

Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban / Nachmanides)

THOU SHALT BURN WITH FIRE WITHOUT THE CAMP; IT IS A SIN-OFFERING. “We do not find any outside sin-offering was one the blood of which was sprinkled within the Sanctuary — upon the veil in front of the Holy of Holies and the golden altar; that kind of a sin-offering was burnt completely outside the camp (Leviticus 6:23). Such a sacrifice, for example, was the sin-offering of the High Priest (ibid., 4:3-12). An outside sin-offering was one the blood of which was sprinkled upon the outer altar that stood in the court of the Tabernacle [or Sanctuary]. Of such a sin-offering only certain fats were burnt on the altar, and the meat eaten by the priests. Since the sin-offering mentioned here was an outside sacrifice, and yet it was to the burnt wholly outside of the camp, it must have been a temporary, special legislation. sin-offering that was to be burnt except this.” Thus is Rashi’s language. It was a temporary, special legislation, according to the words of our Rabbis. The reason for this is, that everything being foreseen by Him, this sin-offering was to effect forgiveness for the making of the golden calf, and it was the sacrifice of the anointed priest; and there [in the Book of Leviticus] He was to command that the blood of the sin-offering [of the High Priest] be brought within [the Tent of Meeting and sprinkled in front of] the veil, [and the sacrifice be burnt outside the camp, Verse 12. Hence He commanded here — in advance — that that sin-offering was to be burnt.]. At present, however, He did not wish to mention that [the blood be brought] within the Tent, for there [in the Book of Leviticus] He says in discernment, [that he sprinkle the blood] in front of the holy veil, and at this point [the Tabernacle] had not yet been sanctified, and the Divine Glory did not yet dwell upon it, that it be called “the holy veil.” Thus the outside sin-offering [mentioned here] was like the inner one [of the anointed priest]. The laying of hands was [also] by Aaron’s sons, [although if it was deemed to be Aaron’s sin-offering the laying of hands should have been done only by Aaron], because He was angry with Aaron to have destroyed him, which means the extermination of his children, therefore they too needed atonement by this sin-offering. The reason for burning [such a sin-offering outside the camp] is the same as the reason for burning the Red Heifer there, and the secret thereof is known from [the text concerning] the goat sent to Azazel.

Ramban (Nachmanides) on the Tanakh — English translation: “Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is peresh (“dung”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “dung” (peresh) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. The word “dung” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  3. Leviticus 4:11 shares the word «dung» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. The verb «תִּשְׂרֹ֣ף» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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