14aThe breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean place, you, your sons, and your bdaughters with you; for they are your due and your sons’ cdue, which are given from the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
15aThe thigh of the heave offering and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring with the offerings of fat made by fire, to offer as a wave offering before the Lord. And it shall be yours and your sons’ with you, by a statute forever, as the Lord has commanded.”
16 Then Moses made careful inquiry about athe goat of the sin offering, and there it was—burned up. And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
17a“Why have you not eaten the sin offering in a holy place, since it is most holy, and God has given it to you to bear bthe guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?
18 See! aIts blood was not brought inside1 the holy place; indeed you should have eaten it in a holy place, bas I commanded.”
19 And Aaron said to Moses, “Look, athis day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord, and such things have befallen me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, bwould it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord?”
The Law on the point in question was clear. See Leviticus 2:3, note; Leviticus 4:5, note; Leviticus 4:15 note. But on this occasion, though the sin-offering which had been offered by Aaron was for the people Leviticus 9:15, its blood was not carried into the tabernacle. The priests might therefore have too readily supposed that their eating the flesh, or burning it, was a matter of indifference. Hence, Moses explains that the appropriation of the flesh by the priests is an essential part of the act of atonement Leviticus 10:17.
It was burnt - It was consumed by fire in an ordinary way, not; in the fire of the altar. See Leviticus 1:9.
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