Leviticus - 4:29



29 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 4:29.

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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim that is for sin, and shall immolate it in the place of the holocaust.
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin-offering, and slaughter the sin-offering at the place of the burnt-offering.
and he hath laid his hand on the head of the sin-offering, and hath slaughtered the sin-offering in the place of the burnt-offering.
And he is to put his hand on the head of the sin-offering and put it to death in the place where they put to death the burned offering.
And he shall place his hand upon the head of the victim which is for sin. And he shall immolate it in the place of the holocaust.
Admovebitque manum suam super caput oblationis pro peccato, et mactabit oblationem illam pro peccato in loco holocausti.

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(k) And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
(k) Read (Leviticus 4:24).

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering,.... His right hand, as the Targum of Jonathan; not the priest that shall offer it, but the man that has sinned, that brings it, thereby confessing his sin, and transferring it to the sacrifice:
and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering; that is, on the north side of the altar.

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