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.
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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.
And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.
And he shall bring out the bull to on the outside of the camp and he shall burn it just as he burned the first bull. It the sin offering of the assembly.
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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.
Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.
And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock: it is the sin-offering for the assembly.
And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock: it is the sin offering for the assembly.
For he shall carie the bullocke without the hoste, and burne him as he burned the first bullock: for it is an offring for the sinne of the Congregation.
But the calf itself he shall carry forth without the camp, and shall burn it as he did the former calf: because it is for the sin of the multitude.
and he hath brought out the bullock unto the outside of the camp, and hath burned it as he hath burned the first bullock; it `is' a sin-offering of the assembly.
and he has brought out the bullock to the outside of the camp, and has burned it as he has burned the first bullock; it [is] a sin-offering of the assembly.
He will carry the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. This is the sin offering for the assembly.
And he shall bring out the bull to on the outside of the camp and he shall burn it just as he burned the first bull. It the sin offering of the assembly.
And he shall carry forth the bullock outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin-offering of the congregation.
He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin-offering for the congregation.
Then he shall take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the bull previously mentioned. It is the sin offering for the whole community.
Then let the ox be taken away outside the tent-circle, that it may be burned as the other ox was burned; it is the sin-offering for all the people.
And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock; it is the sin-offering for the assembly.
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In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 30 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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וְהוֹצִ֣יא אֶת הַפָּ֗ר אֶל מִחוּץ֙ לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה וְשָׂרַ֣ף אֹת֔וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׂרַ֔ף אֵ֖ת הַפָּ֣ר הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן חַטַּ֥את הַקָּהָ֖ל הֽוּא
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.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἐκφέρω ὁ μόσχος ὅλος ἔξω ὁ παρεμβολή καί κατακαίω ὁ μόσχος ὅς τρόπος κατακαίω ὁ μόσχος ὁ πρότερος ἁμαρτία συναγωγή εἰμί
And they shall carry forth the calf whole without the camp, and they shall burn the calf as they burnt the former calf: it is the sin-offering of the congregation.
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 →
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.
וְיַפֵּק יָת תּוֹרָא לְמִבָּרָא לְמַשְׁרִיתָא וְאוֹקִיד יָתֵהּ כְּמָא דִי אוֹקִיד יָת תּוֹרָא קַדְמָאָה חַטַאת קְהָלָא 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.
וְיִפּוֹק יַת תּוֹרָא לְמִבָּרָא לְמַשְׁרִיתָא וְיוֹקֵד יָתֵיהּ הֵיכְמָא דְאוֹקֵד יַת תּוֹרָא קַדְמָאָה דְכַהֲנָא רַבָּא מִטוּל דְיִשְׁתְּבוֹק חוֹבִין דְיִשְרָאֵל בֵּיהּ וּבְרַם חַטָאת קְהָלָא הוּא
And the bullock shall be carried forth without the camp and be burned, as the former bullock of the high priest was burned, that through it the sin of Israel may be forgiven. It is a sin offering for the congregation.
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.
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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 16 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is sâraph (“to burn”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 4:21 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
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.