Leviticus 1:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

His crop with his feathers - The weight of authority is in favor of the marginal rendering. It is most probable that the feathers were burned with the body, and that the wings, mentioned in Leviticus 1:17, were not mutilated.

The place of the ashes - The ashes were daily removed from the altar (except on certain holy days) and thrown into a heap on its eastern side. When the heap became inconveniently large, it was removed in vessels appropriated to the purpose (see Exodus 27:3) to a spot without the camp. Leviticus 4:12; Leviticus 6:11.

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: