Leviticus 1:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar. ”

• Leviticus 1:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Northward before the Lord - That is, on the north side of the altar. See also Leviticus 4:24 , Leviticus 4:29 , Leviticus 4:33 ; Leviticus 7:2 . This was probably an arrangement of some pract...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (g) And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward (h) before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar. (g) Read ( Leviticus 1:5 ). (h)...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Offering of Sheep or Goat. The ritual is identical. The choice of victim more or less expensive is left to the worshipper, Leviticus 1:11 adds the detail of northward ( cf. Leviticus 4:24 , and...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish. If his offering be of the flocks. Those who could...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Burnt Offering This is mentioned first as being the most general form of sacrifice. Its characteristic feature is the consumption of the entire animal by fire upon the altar, for which reason...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  On the side of the altar northward. — As the place for the refuse was on the east side (see Leviticus 1:16 ), as the laver stood on the west side, and as the ascent to the altar was on the south s...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE BURNT OFFERING (CONCLUDED) Leviticus 1:5-17 ; Leviticus 6:8-13 AFTER the laying on of the hand, the next sacrificial act was- THE KILLING OF THE VICTIM "And he shall kill the bullock...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Burned-Offerings of the Herd, Flocks and Fowls Leviticus 1:1-17 Jehovah speaks with Moses, not from Sinai's summit, but from the Tabernacle, because He has come to dwell with men on the earth....

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• Leviticus 1:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The Book of Leviticus is the Book of Laws. It first deals with laws of dedication concerning the offerings, all of which have to do with the divine provision for the people's approach to Jehovah in w...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Observe the same order, is observed as before. Rich, and poor, are in soul concerns alike. Romans 2:11 .

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• Leviticus 1:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the Lord ,.... This is a circumstance not mentioned in the killing of the bullock: Maimonides g says, there was a square place from the...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar. Ver. 11. On the side of the altar north...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Northward Here this and other kinds of sacrifices were killed, ( Leviticus 6:25 ; Leviticus 7:2 ,) because here seems to have been the largest and most convenient place for that work, the altar be...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE BURNT OFFERING (A) A BULL (vv. 1-9) The first verse is significant of the character of the whole book of Leviticus. The Lord speaks to Moses from the tabernacle, His place of dwelling among t...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.   11 And he shall kill it on the side of t...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This and other kinds of sacrifices were killed on the side of the altar northward, Leviticus 6:25 , Leviticus 7:2 , because here seems to have been the largest and most convenient place for that...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Offering of a Ram or a He-Goat ( Leviticus 1:10-13 ). Much in these next three verses is summarised because it is the same procedure as for the offering of the bull-ox. The three things emphas...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  The Law of the Burnt Sacrifices SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 1:1 .—Lord called … and spake. From within the Tabernacle: God’s first habitation among men. Never before had He “dwelt with men on...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Leviticus 1:4 . Make atonement for him, he having first laid his hand on the head of the bullock, and confessed his sin. A burnt-offering for sin is here mentioned as the first of all the sacrific...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The priest shall burn all on the altar. The sacrificial burning What was the significance of the burning? It has been often answered that the consumption of the victim by fire symbolised the co...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  PART I THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS RESPECTING SACRIFICES EXPOSITION THE SACRIFICES (chapters 1-7). There are five classes of sacrifices instituted or regulated in the first seven...

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• Leviticus 1:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of the Flock

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 40:22 ; Ezekiel 8:5 ; Leviticus 6:25 ; Leviticus 7:2 ; Leviticus 1:5 ; Leviticus 1:7-9 ; Leviticus 9:12-14

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• Leviticus 1:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  North — ward — Here this and other kinds of sacrifices were killed, Leviticus 6:25 , and Leviticus 7:2 , because here seems to have been the largest and most convenient place for that work, the a...

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