Leviticus 1:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

With its feathers Or, with its dung, or filth, contained in the crop and in the guts. On the east Of the tabernacle. Here the filth was cast, because this was the remotest place from the holy of holies, which was in the west end; to teach us that impure things and persons should not presume to approach to God, and that they should be banished from his presence. The place of the ashes Where the ashes fell down and lay, whence they were afterward removed without the camp.

Leviticus 1:16

16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers,a and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes: