Leviticus - 4:16



16 The anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting:

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 4:16.

Differing Translations

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And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
And the anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bullock to the tent of meeting:
The priest that is anointed shall carry of the blood into the tabernacle of the testimony.
'And the priest who is anointed hath brought in of the blood of the bullock unto the tent of meeting,
And the priest is to take some of its blood to the Tent of meeting;
the priest who is anointed shall carry some of its blood into the tabernacle of the testimony.
Inferetque sacerdos unctus de sanguine juvenci in tabernaculum conventionis.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood,.... That is, the chief priest, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan explain it:
to the tabernacle of the congregation; as he brought the blood of his own bullock, Leviticus 4:5 from hence to the Leviticus 4:16 an account is given of the same rites to be observed in the sin offering, for the congregation, as for the anointed priest; See Gill on Leviticus 4:6, Leviticus 4:7, Leviticus 4:12.

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